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Many at Yale were surprised by the results of an April 30 election where graduate students voted down a proposal to adopt the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) as their collective bargaining unit. Certainly GESO’s leadership had every reason to be surprised. They’ve spent over a million dollars and have been working for more than 11 years to unionize graduate students at Yale...
...they set up this election to lean in their favor. The election was announced to the public just days before it was to be held. It was poorly advertised, especially in areas of the campus where GESO does not enjoy great support. And when deciding who would be eligible to vote, GESO conveniently “forgot” many graduate students who are outspoken critics of their approach and agenda. They continually visit us in our offices and in our homes—but when it comes time to let us vote, they forget we exist...
...GESO chair Anita Seth put it, “I never believed that it would be possible for us to lose.” But it was possible. In fact, it was inevitable. GESO lost the election because its belligerent behavior angered and disgusted many of the students they sought to convert. Further, GESO lost because their platform of graduate student unionization makes no sense for the academy...
...students have expressly stated that they do not want to be visited or called. If an ex-boyfriend behaved this badly he would be called a stalker, and a restraining order would be granted. When several students in a social science department complained about frequent unwanted home visits, a GESO organizer responded by saying that he could not respect their requests—because he felt his message was too important not to continue visiting those students. Organizers have barged into psychology labs where subjects were being tested, and the results from those subjects had to be discarded because they...
...members aren’t the only ones fed up with GESO’s tactics. Many of its own members removed themselves from the membership list, stating that the GESO leadership is deaf to feedback from the general membership. Is this the group Yale graduate students want to represent them? Clearly...