Word: picketings
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...agreement ends a three-week strike by the workers, who have been employed without a contract since January 2002. Along with the inconvenience of closed dining halls and curtailed student services, the standoff put Yale students in the awkward situation of having to cross picket lines to get to class. Hopefully the contract will prevent any recurrence of such turmoil in the near future...
...perhaps most unfortunate that this dispute had to reach the pitch of anger and conflict that it did. Contracts are best hammered out in conference rooms, not picket lines. Both sides must realize that this is no kind of way to handle labor negotiations, and this fight should be studied to understand how to avoid future strikes at Yale...
According to Conroy, 59 percent of Local 34 workers showed up for work, although he added that a larger percentage of Local 35 members had not crossed picket lines...
...picket lines have had mixed results...
Conroy also said he did not think many students would be deterred from crossing picket lines to enter buildings, and that the pickets were not much of a deviation from Yale’s normal atmosphere...