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...HAVEN—Yale University threatened to grind to a halt yesterday morning, as thousands of unionized Yale workers??including graduate student teaching assistants (TAs)—went on strike...
Yale sophomore Kevin K. Abels, a member of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee—an undergraduate group that supports workers??said that the choice to cross picket lines is “a really personal decision...
...unions—representing almost 4,000 clerical, administrative, technical and dining hall workers??plan to picket the school on March 3 because of the difficulties they say they are having in contract negotiations with Yale. Many graduate students who wish to unionize are expected to join in the picketing...
...hysterical protests over the supposedly inhumane treatment of captured Taliban and al Qaeda fighters at Guantanamo Bay, has long been reluctant to condemn the denial of personal liberties in Castro’s prison-state. Many activists still cling to the myth of Cuba as a “workers?? paradise,” and thus cannot bring themselves to acknowledge the realities of state-sponsored murder, torture and persecution that have typified life for Cuban dissidents since the revolution in 1959. An unfortunately large group of Western liberals, moreover, seem captivated by stories of literacy programs...
Advocates of the ban, supported by local restaurant workers?? unions, say that the ban is a necessary measure to control a health risk and to make sure waiters and bartenders have safe working environments. They argue that the dangers of second-hand smoke could be lethal to the wait staff...