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...HAVEN—Continuing one of largest university labor stoppages in history, thousands of Yale’s unionized employees took to the streets yesterday for the second day. Buoyed by warmer weather, yesterday’s thousand-plus turnout on the picket lines was at least as large as Monday’s, according to students and union organizers...
...early hours of the morning, protestors picketed prominent locations—including Elm Street, in front of the Law School and outside Woolsey Hall—marching in circles and chanting. Favorite rallying cries included “What do we want? Contract! When do we want it? Now!” and “No Contract! No Work! No Peace!” In addition, cars passing picket points frequently slowed and honked repeatedly to show their support for the labor cause...
Later in the morning, picketers began to march around central campus, eventually gathering together in Beinecke Plaza outside Commons dining hall for a long rally before dispersing back to the picket points they had been manning...
...thought there were going to be some places where I was going to have to cross a picket line,” said first-year Kevin Roe, explaining that over the course of the day, he only noticed...
While unions had planned to protest outside buildings with classrooms, students said they were not forced to cross actual picket lines, though some said they felt they did cross theoretical picket lines by simply entering Yale buildings for class...