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...charge, brought by the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), says that Yale is retaliating against teaching assistants by "threatening to blackball them from future academic careers...," according to a press release by GESO...
...vast stock gains that it should be sharing with its students and employees. Its endowment is roughly one-third the size of Harvard's. To attract bright graduate students (especially when competing with Harvard), it must already offer financial aid at the bounds of its capabilities. Not only does GESO not have a case for unionization, but it wouldn't stand to gain much even if it succeeded...
...GESO's most recent ploy--the withholding of their undergraduate students' grades--is a destructive move that can't possibly help their cause. We are sure that Yale will not give in to this pressure, since its officials need only to mark down incompletes for this semester. Underclass students can wait to complete their transcripts, and even seniors applying to graduate schools don't need their fall semester grades until February...
...GESO's members will also hurt themselves by withholding grades. What professor will or should ever recommend them for teaching positions in the future? The TAs' behavior will undoubtedly strike experienced academics as irresponsible and harmful to the educational process; several professors have recently commented to this effect...
...hope that GESO's members will give up their delusions of unionization and go back to being students. While many students would give anything just to be at Yale's graduate school, it doesn't seem to be enough for this relatively small group of TAs. We hope they'll realize just how lucky they already...