by | Feb 24, 2017 9:00 am | Comments (15)
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Pro-union physics students mourn after the vote.
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Graduate student teachers in at least six — and likely eight — Yale departments voted to unionize Thursday, an opening victory in a longer quest on campus.
by | Feb 24, 2017 8:46 am | Comments (6)
By a 2 – 1 vote, the National Labor Relations Board denied a request by Yale for an “expedited review” of a decision that allowed nine “micro-units” of graduate students to vote in unionizing elections Thursday.
by | Feb 24, 2017 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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LEAP’s teen counselors are visiting colleges in the South during the February break. Two of them wrote in on their experiences from Day Three:
by | Feb 22, 2017 1:21 pm | Comments (4)
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LEAPers tour Morehouse.
Once again 40 LEAP teens and chaperones are on a college tour across the south during the New Haven Public Schools winter break. On Day 1 they visited schools in Atlanta, including Clark Atlanta, Georgia State University, as well as Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. Two LEAP junior counselors on the trip share their experiences below.
by | Feb 21, 2017 4:41 pm | Comments (3)
Albright.
(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 UNITE HERE, 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.
by | Feb 21, 2017 4:36 pm | Comments (0)
Randolf.
(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.
by | Feb 21, 2017 3:16 pm | Comments (4)
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The pre-election get-out-the-vote rally.
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.
by | Feb 10, 2017 8:20 pm | Comments (30)
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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.
by | Feb 7, 2017 2:45 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Feb 2, 2017 7:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Willem Bloom, Richard Zacharias, Zachary Manfredi, & Susanna Evarts, and Professor Muneer Ahmad at work Saturday night.
Yale law students Thursday claimed another victory in the fight against the Trump administration’s ban on Muslim refugees.
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by | Feb 2, 2017 11:08 am | Comments (1)
The State Bond Commission Wednesday voted to approve reimbursing Southern Connecticut State University $57,000 to buy police body cameras and store the video.
by | Jan 30, 2017 9:03 am | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Jan 25, 2017 9:31 pm | Comments (3)
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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).
by | Jan 23, 2017 1:41 pm | Comments (3)
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Kendrick.
A bustling era at New Haven’s community college is coming to an end, as President Dorsey Kendrick plans to retire June 30.
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Local 34’s Ford.
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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.
by | Jan 12, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (5)
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Union supporters at a Nov. 30 contract rally.
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.
by | Jan 11, 2017 12:37 pm | Comments (0)
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.
Continue reading ‘40th Year of Partnership Brings New Institute Seminars’
by | Dec 23, 2016 2:50 pm | Comments (40)
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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.
by | Dec 2, 2016 11:03 am | Comments (9)
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A Calhoun protest.
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.
by | Dec 1, 2016 9:10 am | Comments (4)
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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?
by | Nov 19, 2016 6:55 pm | Comments (17)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Salovey Gets Thanksgiving “Gift” Basket From Calhoun Name-Change Activists’
by | Nov 17, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (2)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Local 34 Marches As Contracts Talks Hit Key Stretch’
by | Nov 16, 2016 7:50 pm | Comments (20)
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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.
by | Nov 10, 2016 2:36 pm | Comments (12)
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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.
by | Nov 3, 2016 8:10 am | Comments (3)
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At Photo Booth Day, art student Jenny Tang memorialized a message about democracy.