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...Yale, the issue is more controversial. The Yale Graduate Employees and Student Organization (GESO), which has been embroiled in heated debates with the Yale administration to gain the right to unionize, said the impact of the TA union at NYU will be very favorable for student unions at private institutions...
...expect a wave of TA unions cropping up at private universities across the nation," said GESO chair Rebecca B. Ruquist...
Yale teaching assistants already have a shadow union, the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO). With its unacknowledged status, it has had limited success petitioning Yale to meet its members' needs...
...need a union for general representation, to negotiate pay levels and that sort of thing," said Rebecca Ruquist, the fourth-year Yale graduate student who chairs GESO. "All of us are working without contracts. Some students had their pay cut half way through the semester--that's inhumane," she said...
While the GESO is affiliated with the Local 34 and 35 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, Yale has refused to recognize the union, insisting that they are students and not workers which has prevented the GESO from negotiating with the university...