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...authorization to build required 207 additional steps in 52 government offices over seven years. Registering the sewing machine—including bus trips, waiting in lines, and filling out forms—required six hours per day for 289 days and fees totaling over 2.5 years worth of minimum wage labor...
Service workers had been in negotiations for over a year with the university, renewing their contract on a month-by-month basis, but Yale hasn’t changed its wage offer since last June. When the unions offered to enter binding arbitration in February, the school administration refused. This breakdown in bargaining, given the low wages and poor working conditions at the school, gave workers no option but to strike...
...current strike is part of a long history of labor strife at Yale, and comes as the eighth strike in the past 35 years. Hopefully the school can get it right this time. Yale workers need a living wage and good working conditions. If Yale is insensitive to appeals to its decency and morality, it should at least recognize the need to avoid future conflict...
...striking parties—Locals 34 and 35 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE), the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) and Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) District 1199—are fighting for a diverse array of causes, including wage increases and the right of graduate students to organize...
Throughout the week, labor leaders have assailed Yale for its history of contentious labor relations, criticizing the university for not moving from its original wage offer...