Word: tas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall semester, 250 graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) instituted a "grade strike," in which grades for fall semester courses were withheld. The strike was designed to force Yale to recognize a legitimate union for TAs, according to the Graduate Employees Students Organization at Yale (GESO...
...instead, the university threatened the TAs on strike with a ban on future teaching, academic disciplinary hearings, negative letters of recommendation and possible expulsion. GESO responded by filing an unfair-labor practice suit with the NLRB against Yale University...
According to a press release, part of the difficulties at Yale stem from the TAs' attempts to define themselves as employees, rather than students...
Recognition as employees would allow the TAs to unionize...
Burger said Yale TAs are more inclined to strike than Harvard TFs because they must teach Yale undergraduates. That might cause anyone to go on strike, he quipped...