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...following the rules of the cosmic equilibrium, the end of the baseball strike has brought about a new kind of strike, featuring a new breed of spoiled talents. Yale's Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), which represents about 350 teaching assistants, took a stand for the proletariat everywhere and called on its members to not teach any classes this week...
Here we see the heart of the dispute. Yale students are striking because, like the NLRB, Yale refuses to recognize them as workers. And the legitimacy of the strike turns on the question of whether teaching assistants are workers or students. At first, as GESO argues, it would seem one could separate the two capacities. To the extent that they teach, graduate students should be able to exercise their right to collective bargaining like any other University employees...
...GESO does not have unanimous support among YaleGSAS students...
...groups--Graduates Against GESO (GAG) andGraduates Against Unionization (GAU)--havepostered the Yale campus, opposing the strike...
...anti-GESO groups] represent an extremelysmall minority of people--maybe three," she said."They should come participate in this election.They should come vote...