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Melissa Carey, a climate-change analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund, says that despite all the greenhouse-gas trading under way, it won't reduce emissions until Kyoto takes effect. "Sulfur dioxide was successful," she says, "because there are huge penalties for failing to comply." One Kyoto provision lets industrialized...
The first provision of the contract proposed by Locals 34 and 35 mandates the university’s recognition of any union that can demonstrate majority interest in representation by a union-conducted vote.
The provision in the contract covers major issues motivating the GESO and SEIU strikes—GESO wants to be recognized by the university while the SEIU Local wants to cover about 1,800 more hospital workers.
But Yale spokesperson Tom Conroy said there will be no deal until Locals 34 and 35 drop the provision.
Moreover, the provision would not be binding on Yale-New Haven Hospital, Conroy said, citing an NLRB ruling stating that affiliated hospital workers are not university employees.