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...Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), which represents teaching assistants in the social sciences and humanities, announced that it would strike this week if administrators did not agree to hold a vote regarding their demand to be recognized as a labor union for purposes of collective bargaining...
...GESO's March 31 deadline passed last week with no university response, and the self-styled teaching assistants' union announced a strike for this week...
...GESO spokesperson Eve Weinbaum predicted that between 350 and 400 TAs will strike...
...recognize that meeting teaching assistants' demands for better wages is a different and more difficult matter than granting GESO union recognition. Because less fellowship aid is available to them, graduate students in the humanities and social sciences generally have a more difficult time funding their graduate school educations than their counterparts in the natural sciences. Should their wages as teaching assistants rise simply because they receive less outside financial support than graduate students in the sciences...
Recognition of GESO as a bargaining unit would represent an important step forward in management-labor relations at Yale. It may not be the solution to all of the problems graduate students face, but it should certainly help both parties involved in their efforts to work out a more equitable arrangement. Yale University should listen to the united voices of some of its most important workers--its students...