Word: tas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Labor Relations Board has filed a lawsuit in federal court as a result of the tactics used by the Yale administration during the grade strike by Teaching Assistants (TAs) in December...
Last Friday, the president, provost and deans of Yale University were charged by the NLRB as a result of a complaint by TAs who were involved in a strike for union recognition...
...understand the argument that the Yale TAs are students and not employees; after all, they accept teaching positions as part of their financial aid packages. We realize that there is a danger inherent in allowing graduate students at Yale, who already are in a privileged position and likely on the road to becoming university professors, to make demands on the university. However, the merits of unionization outweigh the drawbacks...
...course, they could go elsewhere, but Yale has many of the best graduate departments in the country. Going elsewhere could mean getting more financial aid and better teaching packages, but it also means that one's Ph.D. might be worth less. Without the ability to argue their position, the TAs must acquiesce to Yale's dictates, even though those decisions may be unfair and punitive...
...hope that the NLRB's proposed formal complaint against Yale will convince the university to comply with the labor board's demands; if not, we would like to see the case reach an administrative law judge, because a ruling in favor of the TAs could set a nationwide precedent. Especially in the wake of last week's strikes at the University of California's three largest campuses--Berkeley, Los Angeles and San Diego--the decision on Yale could mean more than a pay raise for a few hundred graduate students in New Haven. It could set an example for fair...