Pickets hit Yale - On the Line - Brief Article

Progressive, The, April, 2003

New Haven, Connecticut

More than 5,000 workers engaged in a five-day strike at Yale University in early March.

Clerical workers, food service and maintenance workers, graduate teaching and research assistants, and food workers at the Yale-New Haven Hospital joined together to protest inadequate wages. Graduate students and hospital food service workers also lobbied for union recognition. Yale President Richard C. Levin told The New York Times that the labor issues could be resolved if contract negotiations could be separated from union organizing efforts. This is the eighth strike at Yale since 1968.

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