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The Hartford Courant, Conn., Dan Haar Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003
By Dan Haar, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 5--The whole point of worker strikes is to create discomfort, and the walkout at Yale University by clerical, technical, service and maintenance workers is making its point, disrupting the age-old rituals at a crucial week in the tradition-bound campus.
It is all the more uncomfortable for people looking to take sides in this strike because the workers cannot -- despite grandstanding by Jesse Jackson -- make a clear case of moral outrage.
With average salaries slightly above $30,000, they are underpaid, considering New Haven's cost of living, considering Yale is the dominant local employer and especially considering that Yale sits on an $11 billion...
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