Word: geso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff argues that the question at hand is simply one of union recognition. Perhaps they ignore GESO demands because they know that the demands are unreasonable. One union organizer points out that Yale teaching assistants are paid less than the cost of living. Graduate students have their studies as their first priority; teaching undergraduates is not a full-time job. Should they be paid the full cost of living for part-time work...
...strike the week of April 3. These graduate students constitute a large group with an important place in Yale College life, and they need to be recognized as such. The Yale administration should grant union representation to the members of the Yale Graduate Employee and Student Organization (GESO), whose members include a majority of the roughly 1100 humanities and social science graduate students...
Thus far the administration has refused to grant the group recognition as a bargaining unit, and it shows no signs of doing so in the future. As Gary G. Fryer, Yale's director of public affairs, stated, "They [GESO members] know very well that we do not recognize them as a bargaining unit, and we have no intention of recognizing them...
Fryer explained Yale's reason for not recognizing GESO. "They are students principally, not employees, and they are treated as such," he said. But this line of argumentation has its problems. Simply because they are students first and employees second does not mean teaching assistants should lose their rights as workers to organize and seek change...
...recognize that meeting teaching assistants' demands for better wages is a different and more difficult matter than granting GESO union recognition. Because less fellowship aid is available to them, graduate students in the humanities and social sciences generally have a more difficult time funding their graduate school educations than their counterparts in the natural sciences. Should their wages as teaching assistants rise simply because they receive less outside financial support than graduate students in the sciences...