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Stephen Albright |
Feb 21, 2017 4:41 pm
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(Opinion) On Thursday, approximately 300 Yale graduate students, teaching fellows in nine departments across campus, will vote on whether Local 33, a union affiliated with UNITEHERE, will represent them in contract negotiations with the University. I am not eligible to vote, because although I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Physics department, one of the departments whose teachers are eligible to vote, I am not currently teaching in Physics. However, if I could vote, I would be voting “no” on Local 33.
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Justin Randolph |
Feb 21, 2017 4:36 pm
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(Opinion) Before coming to Yale in 2014, I hadn’t interacted with a union. Alabama is a right-to-work state, and graduates from my public high school who work at the Mercedes plant didn’t have a union until well after I moved north. So when an organizer with Local 33 — then GESO — came talking graduate student union, I was skeptical. In the three years since, including two years spent organizing friends and colleagues in the History Department, I’ve come to see the promise of forming a union to make Yale a better place for graduate teachers and workers across New Haven.
Twenty-five years after their first attempts to form a union, some of Yale’s graduate student teachers will finally get their chance to vote for one this week, while the university is asking Washington to reconsider allowing the election to take place.
Protesters arrested in one last action before the renaming.
Hopper.
Following protests over its namesake’s role in promoting slavery in the 19th century South, Yale’s residential Calhoun College has been renamed Hopper College, after a pioneering female mathematician.
The Yale Corporation voted to make the change Saturday after months of protest over the residential college being named after John C. Calhoun.
The Catalbasoglu sibs and Truony with Syrian refugee children in Turkey.
As she mourned her adopted country’s turn away from a world humanitarian crisis, Vietnamese refugee Trinh Truony found a reason to maintain hope — with the help of eight stuffed suitcases from New Haven.
The State Bond Commission Wednesday voted to approve reimbursing Southern Connecticut State University $57,000 to buy police body cameras and store the video.
Willem Bloom, Richard Zacharias, Zachary Manfredi, & Susanna Evarts, and Professor Muneer Ahmad at work Saturday night.
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Wishnie: His students swung into action.
A Yale Law School team helped convince a judge Saturday to temporarily stop the government from deporting foreigners detained at U.S. airports based on an executive order by President Donald Trump.
But the order has quashed about a dozen refugee families’ plans to resettle in New Haven in coming weeks.
Yale’s graduate student teachers — at least those in nine departments — must have the chance to vote on whether to be represented by a union, according to an order issued Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Michelle Liu, Paul Bass and Lucy Gellman |
Jan 19, 2017 11:24 am
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“Yale’s a good job”: 35’s Olson & Tarka after the vote:
The crowd at the Shubert Theater Wednesday night extended the run of a popular local drama — Labor Peace Comes To Yale — by five years, as workers unanimously approved a new contract with increased job security, preserved medical and pension benefits, and modest wage increases.
It appears 2017 is starting out as a year of labor peace in New Haven, as Yale University and its unions reached a tentative deal on a new five-year contract.
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Josiah Brown |
Jan 11, 2017 12:37 pm
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New Haven Public School teachers and Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute seminar leaders — members of the Yale faculty — gathered to discuss the program’s seminars, application process, and curricular and professional development opportunities.
The following account was contributed by the program’s Josiah Brown.
Menafee with his new LG Metro PCS: the only life change.
At first, Uncle Milton thought Corey Menafee was a “dumbass” for losing his steady Yale dining hall job by smashing a small stained-glass window depicting slaves picking cotton.
He had no idea Menafee was about to become a celebrity. Or that one unpremeditated action would reverse the decision of a $25 billion-endowed university and lead some of its leading minds to devise an intellectual framework to help campuses across the country tackle racial controversy.
A panel of historians has given Yale a scholarly basis for renaming a residential college named after a leading slavery advocate if it chooses to— while stopping short of recommending that it actually do so.
As union contract negotiations intensified at Yale, hundreds of workers jammed City Hall’s atrium to demonstrate their strength — and held their fire at the university.
Could that mean labor peace is returning to New Haven’s largest employer?
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 19, 2016 6:55 pm
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Members of the Change the Name Coalition trek to Salovey’s office Friday.
Yale University President Peter Salovey got a special delivery of a basket full of Thanksgiving “protest” goodies from activists seeking to change the name of Calhoun College.
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Michelle Liu |
Nov 17, 2016 2:22 pm
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With a clock ticking down on negotiations on a new contract, hundreds of unionized Yale clerical and technical workers marched to the university president’s doorstep Wednesday evening.
Divinity student Dax Crocker addresses the Yale rally.
An undocumented immigrant stepped out of the shadows Wednesday afternoon and on top of the Maya Lin “Women’s Table” sculpture to urge a crowd of supporters to make Yale one of many “sanctuary campuses” across the country.
After enduring a Trumpian-inspired assault of “kike” and “fag” tweets, Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald might have reason to disparage die-hard followers of America’s next president.
Instead, he urged a blue (in two senses of the word) New Haven audience gathered for a post-election reckoning to move beyond dismissive stereotypes.
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Michelle Liu |
Oct 28, 2016 8:00 pm
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Months after he smashed a slavery-themed window in Yale’s Calhoun College with a broom, cafeteria worker Corey Menafee stepped away from his job during a 30-minute break on Friday to return the favor for those who helped him regain that job this summer.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 19, 2016 4:15 pm
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Seniors Pottinger and Fletcher.
Devonte Fletcher, who plays the trumpet and is the band’s drum major, wants to be a music/ band teacher — preferably right back at Hillhouse High School in the years to come.
Flutist Iyonna Pottinger is equally passionate about majoring in music education, but wonders whether she should apply at an historically black college or to an in-state school where tuition is less.
