Word: strike
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...course, the one major difference between this strike and the baseball strike is that no one cares--not the majority of the Yale students, and hardly any members of the Yale faculty. I wouldn't expect President Clinton to try and settle this one soon. And don't expect the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to end this strike either. They don't even recognize graduate students as workers...
Here we see the heart of the dispute. Yale students are striking because, like the NLRB, Yale refuses to recognize them as workers. And the legitimacy of the strike turns on the question of whether teaching assistants are workers or students. At first, as GESO argues, it would seem one could separate the two capacities. To the extent that they teach, graduate students should be able to exercise their right to collective bargaining like any other University employees...
...fact, this strike may reflect Yale's troubled labor past, more than the legitimate claims of oppressed students. According to one Yale source, Yale's Local 34 will renegotiate its contract next year and hopes to use GESO to strengthen its position. For this reason, the union is bankrolling GESO's efforts to secure University recognition...
...strike will not matter. Lacking support from the greater Yale community (including graduate students in the natural sciences), GESO will be unable to receive union recognition. The strike will merely be another black eye on a university that has had its share of recent embarrassments...
Then again, maybe there's something we at Harvard can like about this strike after...