Word: geso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yale University's dispute with its graduate student teachers got downright nasty, and now it has finally ended. Members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) had been trying to obtain permission to unionize for several years, and some had withheld fall semester grades from undergraduate courses--until Tuesday...
...members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) voted last Sunday to end the job action even though they had not won any concessions. The group had wanted to force Yale to recognize it as a union and negotiate better working conditions...
...withholding of undergraduate grades represented the most drastic step yet by GESO, which has been trying for the past five years to gain recognition as a union. Yale has maintained that the teaching assistants are students, not employees...
...They're willing to support GESO to a point, but they won't go all the way," he said...
...unclear how many of the school's 304 teaching fellows--graduate students who assist professors in lecture classes--missed the Tuesday deadline. According to GESO, the "grade strike" involves a total of about 200 people...