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...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...
Yale teaching fellows have been striking for five weeks in hopes that the University will recognize GESO's status as a collective bargaining unit. Eighty-seven graduate teaching fellows did not turn in grades for fall semester courses...
...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...