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According to a press release, part of the difficulties at Yale stem from the TAs' attempts to define themselves as employees, rather than students...
...sort of an anti-intellectual thing to do," said one graduate student who asked to remain anonymous. The student has friends who are TAs at Yale and has been a TF at Harvard in the past...
Some Yale TAs fell they are coerced into teaching and then paid a low wage, she said. Also, there is an atmosphere at Yale in which graduate students are not appreciated...
However, Lafer said that now the General Counsel of the National Labor Law believes that TAs are employees...
...TAs hope that by being allowed to unionize they can receive the benefits they deserve...