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Levin’s silence provoked more than 100 members of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) to march on Betts House last Thursday afternoon to express their distaste for Levin’s reticence...
...GESO seized the opportunity to criticize what they say is Yale’s inequitable treatment of women and minority faculty...
Speakers at the GESO protest pointed out that several women faculty face occupational barriers such as insufficient health care and childcare, and some female workers feel a lack of respect and job security, according to The Yale Daily News...
...GESO also lost because unionization is not the answer for graduate students at Yale. Yale students receive a very competitive stipend and benefits package. Graduate stipends are market-driven, and locking them in at a certain level with a collectively bargained contract would prevent the university from being able to compete with other top-tier schools in attracting the best graduate students. Yale has a functioning, effective Graduate Student Assembly composed of representatives from every graduate department. These students have the ear of the dean, sit on dozens of university committees, and meet annually with the Board of Trustees...
...surprised by the results of April’s election. But I really have GESO to thank. Through their actions they have effectively proven to the Yale community that their unionization campaign would lead to a disaster for graduate students at Yale...