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...TAs should have the right to negotiate their salaries and benefits as a group, like any other group of employees...
GESO is made up of approximately 700 teaching assistants (TAs), a minority of the graduate students at the university. These TAs, most of whom study the non-government-funded humanities, see their teaching positions as jobs. They would like to unionize and even take part in the contract negotiations of Yale's existing unions...
...TAs will also lose one of their potential allies in their fight for unionization--the undergraduates themselves. It's all very well to sympathize with your TA about making ends meet in New Haven, but when you can't find out how you did on the final exam, well, sympathies may tend to fade away...
GESO's members will also hurt themselves by withholding grades. What professor will or should ever recommend them for teaching positions in the future? The TAs' behavior will undoubtedly strike experienced academics as irresponsible and harmful to the educational process; several professors have recently commented to this effect...
...hope that GESO's members will give up their delusions of unionization and go back to being students. While many students would give anything just to be at Yale's graduate school, it doesn't seem to be enough for this relatively small group of TAs. We hope they'll realize just how lucky they already...