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...vote, it began. Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) went on strike last week to gain recognition from the university as a legitimate labor union. Let’s hope they don?...
...GESO has a rather dubious history. For starters, its leadership has consistently claimed that its membership reaches over 50 percent of all Yale graduate students. Yet, the number of union members who turned out to vote for or against the strike is a curious detail. After all, a mere 623 graduate students voted, out of 2,334 campus-wide. For the most important vote in the union’s entire existence, then, only half of its claimed members even showed up. With a “yes” vote of only one-fifth of all graduate students...
GESO’s guerilla tactics are another cause for concern. Non-organized graduate students report intimidation in the dining hall from union activists and at Graduate Student Association meetings stacked with pro-GESO partisans who control the discourse. And unlike most unions, including their fellow co-strikers Locals 34 and 35, a “Coordinating Committee” controls most actions of GESO, rather than a majority vote of its membership...
Even more disheartening is GESO’s audacity in comparing itself to Locals 34 and 35, composed of Yale clerical and service workers respectively. Those who hasten to sympathize with any pro-labor cause should not delude themselves: GESO is composed of a minority of Yale’s graduate students whose education is paid for, whose room and board are subsidized and who are well on their way to professorships. It is telling that the only thing GESO is demanding is formal recognition; after all, Yale’s graduate students already have what most striking laborers demand...
Conroy said the university would not consider the unions’ proposal of letting GESO conduct its own election...