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According to Smith, about 1,700 of Local 34’s 2,800 members—mostly clerical and technical workers??€”were on strike...
...strikers represent four of Yale’s unions and a wide variety of workers, including janitors, food-service employees and hospital workers??€”and some graduate students, whose participation in the strike drew heavy criticism from many undergraduates...
...Deborah Chernoff of the unions’ umbrella organization, the Federation of Hospital and University Employees, said the hospital workers??€™ need a settlement just as much as the other unions...
...statements posted on the Yale Web site, the university defended its stance, claiming that it has already offered the unions a fair deal. According to the statements, workers??€™ insistence on tying their fate to that of GESO and the hospital employees is responsible for bogging down negotiations...
According to Yale unions spokesperson Bill Meyerson, Local 34 and Local 35—which represents Yale’s service and maintenance workers??€”are asking for one-year retroactive raises of 4 and 3 percent and increases of 8.5 percent and 5.5 percent over the next three years, respectively...