News about the unions at Yale

Price of Labor Peace
(New York Times, 9/20/03)
To end the 22-day strike that was embarrassing Yale and grating on its students, the university gave its two main unions wage and pension increases that are generous by most any definition.

YALE WORKERS RATIFY CONTRACT
Happy union members ready to return to jobs
(New Haven Register, 9/20/03)

Yale Unions Vote Yes
Eight-Year Pact Improves Pensions
(Hartford Courant, 9/20/03)

Workers ratify contracts, will return to work Monday
Membership meeting votes are nearly unanimous
(Yale Daily News, 9/20/03)

Yale Strike Over
(WTNH Channel 8, 9/20/03)
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Ivy League campus seen as good place to get message out
(Associated Press, 9/20/03)

YALE STRIKE OVER; Unions gain wage, pension increases
(New Haven Register, 9/19/03)

Yale in Deal With 2 Unions, Ending Strike
(New York Times, 9/19/03)

Yale-Union Deal: Workers Vote Today
(Hartford Courant, 9/19/03)

Sigh of relief to accompany new contract
(New Haven Register, 9/19/03)

Yale, unions reach accord
(Yale Daily News, 9/19/03)

DeStefano again plays key role in end of strike
(Yale Daily News, 9/19/03)

At strike's end, a sigh of relief
(Yale Daily News, 9/19/03)

Breathe a sigh of relief: It's over
(Yale Daily News, 9/19/03)

Returning to normalcy, reclaiming our purpose
(Yale Daily News, 9/19/03)

City activists blast New Haven Savings Bank for 'redlining'
(New Haven Register, 9/19/03)

The Backroom "Corporators"
How the swindlers at New Haven Savings pretended to give depositors a voice
(New Haven Advocate, 9/18/03)

Power Point Presentation
A Democratic primary election day sends a message about where power lies in New Haven
(New Haven Advocate, 9/18/03)

A National Strike
Mass rally shuts down city center--& boosts Yale's strikers
(New Haven Advocate, 9/18/03)

Tentative agreement reached to end Yale strike
(Associated Press, 9/18/03)

Yale retiree turns labor activist
(Record-Journal, 9/18/03)

Supporters from across state join striking Yale workers
(New Haven Register, 9/18/03)

Pact talks boil down to 2 men, 1 issue: money
(New Haven Register, 9/18/03)

Hiring of replacement workers unjust
(New Haven Register, 9/18/03)
Letter by Bishop Rosazza

Mayor unfeeling for those who cross line
(New Haven Register, 9/18/03)

Union backers march on Yale
(Yale Daily News, 9/18/03)

No clear choice yet for Ward 1 seat
(Yale Daily News Editorial, 9/18/03)

The loss of 'JEOPARDY!': yet another cost of the unions' strike
(Yale Daily News, 9/18/03)

Yale, unions close to settlement; workers expect Monday return
(Yale Daily News, 9/18/03)

National Unions Make Yale A Key Test
(Hartford Courant, 9/17/03)

Yale Strike Jeopardizing `Jeopardy!'
(Hartford Courant, 9/17/03)

Strike suspends 'Jeopardy!' taping, for now
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

Yale bristles at critics in clergy
(New Haven Register, 9/17/03)

NHSB conversion under scrutiny
(New Haven Register, 9/17/03)

How is Yale looking in the New York Times?
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

Retirees begin vigil for pensions
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

City bills Yale for strike costs
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

Aldermanic hopefuls spar over strike
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

The strike was unrelated to low voter turnout last week
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

UOC folk concert benefits strikers
(Yale Daily News, 9/17/03)

City wants to collect strike costs from university
(New Haven Register, 9/16/03)

New Haven Savings Bank vote waiver opposed
(New Haven Register, 9/16/03)

Georgetown Students Travel to Yale to Support Striking Workers
(The Hoya, 9/16/03)

Endowment likely to hit $11 billion
(Yale Daily News, 9/16/03)

Yale crushes strikes with race as its weapon
(Yale Daily News, 9/16/03)

Just ask a worker
(Yale Daily News, 9/16/03)

Yale's Trouble is HERE
(Front Page Mag, 9/16/03)

Strike exposes poverty behind scenes at Yale
One of America's richest universities is pitted against one of its poorest towns
(The Guardian UK, 9/15/03)

Three Columbia Students Arrested at Yale Rally
(Columbia Daily Spectator, 9/15/03)

Hundreds Arrested at Yale Labor Strike Rally
(Harvard Crimson, 9/15/03)

Letter from 100+ Yale Faculty Urging binding arbitration
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

Thousands rally in support of Yale unions; more than 100 are arrested
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

Activism, apathy reign in different Yale departments
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

UOC teach-in offers students different perspective on strike
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

Strikebreakers walk out, welcomed by unions
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

What exactly are the unions holding out for?
(Yale Daily News, 9/15/03)

While fending for food during strike, not all choices are healthy
(New Haven Register, 9/15/03)
Letter: All who must toil should support strikers
Letter: Pickets bully strike foes

Levin, Wilhelm can settle strike
(New Haven Register Editorial, 9/15/03)

Yale Strikers Backed At Rally
(Hartford Courant, 9/14/03)

Labor Leaders Arrested at Rally for Yale University Strikers
(New York Times, 9/14/03)

Union backers march at Yale
(Boston Globe, 9/14/03)

10,000 Yale strike supporters rally in New Haven
(New Haven Register, 9/14/03)

Wilhelm, once a campus star, now a constant thorn
(New Haven Register, 9/14/03)

Sweeney, union workers arrested at Yale
(AP Wire, 9/14/03)

Dozens arrested at Yale union rally
(WTNH Channel 8, 9/14/03)
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Banks do go public and stay local
(New Haven Register Editorial, 9/14/03)

Thirteen replacement workers quit jobs at Yale
(WTNH Channel 8, 9/13/03)
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Some Yale Replacement Workers Quit To Join Strikers
(Hartford Courant, 9/13/03)

Illegal aliens filling strikers' jobs
(New Haven Register, 9/13/03)

City restaurants, grocers thriving from strike
(New Haven Register, 9/13/03)

Yale University Strike Is Felt in New York
(New York Sun, 9/12/03)

Yale Workers Deserve Decent Pensions
(Hartford Courant, Column, 9/12/03)

Yale Tactic Angers Hispanic Caucus
(Hartford Courant, 9/12/03)

Logjam breaks in talks with Yale, union chief says
(New Haven Register, 9/12/03)

Harvard vs. Yale: The real story behind workers' wages
(Yale Daily News, 9/12/03)

Editorial: Claims of racial division undermine point
(Yale Daily News, editorial, 9/12/03)

Labor talks stall on pensions
(Yale Daily News, 9/12/03)

Costs Mount for Yale and Union as Strike Drags On
(New York Times, 9/11/03)

Hispanic lawmakers condemn Yale strike tactics
(Hartford Courant, 9/11/03)

Letter slaps Yale over strike hiring
(New Haven Register, 9/11/03)

Not all union members on picket line
(New Haven Register, 9/11/03)

Dillon joins effort to stop New Haven Savings Bank change
(New Haven Register, 9/11/03)

U.S. Reps blast Yale's Hispanic fill-in hires
(Yale Daily News, 9/11/03)

For Yale Police, strike hints at own labor talks
(Yale Daily News, 9/11/03)

Crossing picket line makes for hard work
(Yale Daily News, 9/11/03)

Author Walker cancels talk to avoid picket lines
(Yale Daily News, 9/11/03)

Hurled insults, secret shuttles: life as a "scab"
(Yale Daily News, 9/11/03)

Yale accused of using Latinos as strikebreakers
(New Haven Register, 9/10/03)

Professors urge binding arbitration
(Yale Daily News, 9/9/03)

The rules according to Lorimer: Can Yale expel you for picketing?
(Yale Daily News, 9/9/03)

Feeling conflicted? You're not alone
(Yale Daily News, 9/9/03)

Learning the hard lessons of how Yale treats its workers
(Yale Daily News, 9/9/03)

Ivy-Covered Unrest: 35 Years of Labor Troubles at Yale University
Maintenance and Clerical Workers Have Walked Out 9 Times During 11 Sets of Negotiations
(Washington Post, 9/8/03)

Yale Workers' Strike Drags Into 13th Day
(Harvard Crimson, 9/8/03)

The fragile renaissance of a city
(Yale Daily News, 9/8/03)

Locals 34 and 35 march on hospital
Strikers express solidarity with hospital's dietary workers
(Yale Daily News, 9/8/03)

Ivy, Tangled With Pickets
(The New York Times, Sunday 9/7/03)
As Prof. Douglas W. Rae began his lecture on Thursday, he was soon drowned out by sounds of the transforming city outside: blaring horns, pounding drums and the angry voices of striking Yale workers singing the old Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It." "Let's stop and talk about this," Professor Rae said, interrupting his lecture and moving from behind the lectern on the stage. "They are getting to me," he said. "This is not easy." That, perhaps, was precisely the point.

Yale Workers' Plight No Moral Outrage, But Worth The Fight
(Hartford Courant, 9/5/03)
By Dan Haar

In Yale Strike, A Torn Solidarity
While Some Nonparticipants Agonize, Others Simply Cross Lines
(Hartford Courant, 9/5/03)

Some Yale Faculty Petition To End Strike
(Hartford Courant, 9/5/03)

Facing picket lines, some profs venture off campus
(Yale Daily News, 9/5/03)

Unions seek audience with Levin
(Yale Daily News, 9/5/03)

Editorial: GESO cannot have it both ways
(Yale Daily News Editorial, 9/5/03)

Exactly who's in the right in this labor dispute?
(Yale Daily News, 9/5/03)
We write this note as two professors with divergent views and a common goal. One of us crosses picket lines and the other doesn't. Yet it is easy for us to agree that the strike is in neither party's interest. What can we do about it? During a strike, people want to know which side is being more reasonable.

The workers behind the leaders
(Yale Daily News, Op-Ed, 9/5/03)

Yale University and Workers' Unions Are at It Again
(New York Times, 9/4/03)
Yale University has long prided itself on being an institution for dispassionate discourse, but there is one arena where it has fallen sorely short: labor relations. Eight days into a strike by more than 2,000 clerical, dining hall and maintenance workers, Yale has cemented its unhappy reputation of having the worst labor relations of any university in the nation.

Some Yale classes take detour to avoid pickets
(New Haven Register, 9/4/03)

Students try to deal with strike on campus
(New Haven Register, 9/4/03)

Union Organizers to Air Complaints Against Yale
(New York Times, 9/3/03)
The group seeking to unionize graduate students at Yale announced yesterday that a former labor secretary and a former general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board would serve on a committee investigating whether Yale administrators or professors broke the law while fighting the unionization drive ... Leaders of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization, which is seeking to unionize 2,100 graduate students at Yale, claim that illegal intimidation by some Yale faculty members contributed heavily to the pro-union forces' narrowly losing a unionization vote last April. Several graduate students said that a few science professors had threatened to retaliate against them if they went on strike or engaged in pro-union talk in science buildings.

Picketing to focus on classes
(New Haven Register, 9/3/03)
Picketing at Yale is expected to be heavy in front of buildings housing large numbers of classrooms today as the academic year kicks off for undergraduates.

Jesse Jackson and 18 Others Are Arrested in Yale Protest
(New York Times, 9/2/03)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and 18 other people were arrested yesterday when they blocked traffic at Yale University to show their support for striking clerical, dining hall and maintenance workers on campus. Before his arrest at the intersection of Elm and College Streets in New Haven, Mr. Jackson led a rally on the Yale campus that was attended by 3,000 to 5,000 strikers and their supporters, according to police estimates.

Jackson, Others Cuffed At Yale
(Hartford Courant, 9/2/03)
Activist Jesse Jackson chose the Yale University campus, where unionized school workers went on strike last week, as the setting for his latest act of civil disobedience.

JACKSON AMONG 19 ARRESTED
4,500 march on Yale; group blocks street
(New Haven Register, 9/2/03)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and 18 other clergy and members of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition were arrested Monday after leading 4,500 marchers down Dixwell Avenue to the heart of Yale University�s campus in support of its striking workers. Unlike the arrest of 83 union workers on Friday, police did not get notice of the group�s planned civil disobedience until an hour before the small group sat down and blocked the intersection of Elm and College streets around noon.

Yale's union-bashing tactics mirror larger strategy
(Chicago Sun-Times, 9/2/03)
By Jesse Jackson
Yale University, one of the nation's wealthiest private universities, is the site of a major worker strike ... The Yale Corp. is a notoriously tight-fisted, hard-nosed, anti-union employer. It has suffered brutal labor strikes in recent years, as graduate students and service and technical workers have fought for decent wages and benefits. In this, the corporation sadly reflects the worst in the culture of the modern corporation.

Jesse Jackson leads Labor Day march at Yale
(Associated Press, 9/1/03)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested Monday along with other striking Yale workers and their supporters after blocking traffic on campus.

Jackson to lead labor march
(New Haven Register, 9/1/03)
Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took the cause of Yale�s striking workers to the pulpit on Sunday at Varick Memorial AME Zion Church, preaching a sermon that demanded workers� rights and promoting today�s Labor Day march down Dixwell Avenue ... It is sponsored by the Rainbow Push Coalition, founded by Jackson; the state AFL-CIO; and by the New Haven Central Labor Council. The event also has the "full support" of the NAACP, said President Scot X. Esdaile, who said the NAACP would help organize marchers from other communities and get them to New Haven.

August 2003

Talks scheduled for Wednesday; workers speak at churches
(Associated Press, 8/31/03)
Yale University negotiators and leaders of striking labor unions have agreed to return to the negotiating table with New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. on Wednesday. Meanwhile, striking workers and the Rev. Jesse Jackson prepared for a march Monday morning on Yale's Beinecke Plaza and Woodbridge Hall, which houses university President Richard Levin's office.

Campus quiet on 4th day of strike
(New Haven Register, 8/31/03)
Four days into a bitter labor strike marked by clamoring protests, arrests and traffic jams, Yale University�s campus was markedly placid Saturday "Where are all the strikers today? It�s so quiet and nice here," remarked parent Carol Cann of New Jersey, who was moving her freshman daughter into the dorms. "Thank God," said freshman Jenna Henderson of Rockland County, N.Y. "People were getting in the way and it was really annoying" ... Fearing disruptive protests, the university canceled the traditional freshman assembly and address by President Richard Levin.

John Wilhelm, Yale class of 67, leads unions in strike
(Associated Press, 8/31/03)
If Yale University has a problem with the way national union chief John Wilhelm leads its workers, the school has no one to blame but itself. Yale graduated Wilhelm in 1967 and provided the stage where the president of the 250,000-member Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union got his first taste of labor organizing. Lessons learned at Yale - less in the classroom than on the picket line - have catapulted Wilhelm to his role.

Unions to Push to Make Organizing Easier
(New York Times, 8/31/03)
On Labor Day, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. plans to announce a nationwide campaign that union leaders say is crucial to assuring labor's future, a campaign that aims to change federal laws to make it easier for workers to join unions ... Under the planned union campaign, known as Voice@Work, labor leaders hope to educate union members about the obstacles nonunion workers face before unionizing and to mobilize union members to contact lawmakers. Labor unions also plan to ask immigrant groups, ethnic groups and clergy members to push for new laws and to press companies not to fight unionization. Labor unions have already lined up considerable support within Congress for this campaign, with more than a dozen House members agreeing to form a Congressional Workers Rights Caucus. To show his backing for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. campaign, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said he would introduce a bill this week that would require companies to recognize unions once a majority of their workers signed pro-union cards in a process known as card check.

Yale's Capitalist Swine
Op-Ed by William F. Buckley, 8/31/03
At this writing, Sen. Joe Lieberman is scheduled to appear at Yale to give a speech supporting the strikers. It will be called, "Why Politicians Running for President Support Your Strike."

Proof things have returned to normal
(New Haven Register, 8/31/03)
Osaycan Yousee leaned back on the bench on the New Haven Green, sipping a Sprite and munching chips. "It seems to me," said he, "that things are pretty much getting back to normal." "Why do you say that?" said I. C. Zilch, sipping a Coke. "Well, just look at what�s going on," he said. "We got workers at Yale here striking and on the picket lines because they believe they deserve more money, and we got their Yale employer saying they�re getting more than enough."

Union Head Arrested During Strike at Yale
(L.A. Times, 8/30/03)
The leader of a national union was arrested Friday and hundreds of demonstrators blocked intersections in New Haven, Conn., as an acrimonious strike by more than 4,000 Yale University employees entered its third day.

Yale Freshmen Find Their Moving Day Slowed by Strikers
(New York Times, 8/30/03)
As the new crop of freshman students arrived on campus at Yale University this morning, they were greeted by hundreds of striking union workers, chanting slogans and blocking streets in demonstrations that led to the arrest of 83 workers.

Yale Strikers Greet Students
Demonstrations Block City Intersections As Freshmen, Families Arrive; 83 Arrested
(Hartford Courant, 8/30/03)
The third day of the Yale University workers' strike Friday was also the loudest, most colorful and most disruptive. As incoming freshmen and their families arrived, demonstrators stopped downtown traffic in three places, causing massive traffic backups and resulting in 83 arrests.
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83 arrested as students return to Yale campus
(New Haven Register, 8/30/03)
Yale parents took it all in stride Friday as they deposited their children for the new school year, while thousands of university workers picketed and 83 were arrested in several planned acts of civil disobedience. Welcome to New Haven.

Presidential candidate joins rally
(New Haven Register, 8/30/03)
When Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was a student at Yale College in 1971, he joined a union blockade at the university�s power plant. "I don�t suggest you do that," he quipped, as he stood in the thick of labor strife again Friday.

As strike continues, picket lines greet freshmen
'Civil disobedience' action leads to 83 arrests
(Yale Daily News, 8/30/03)
Yale freshmen received an unusual reception as they arrived on campus Friday, greeted not only by freshmen counselors and move-in crews, but also by picketing University workers. To the tune of tambourines, drums, and megaphones, members of the class of 2007 arrived on the third day of a strike by members of Yale's two largest unions and workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dean rallies 1,000 in support of unions
Presidential hopeful is third high-profile political figure to visit campus
(Yale Daily News, 8/30/03)
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean '71, in a Friday evening speech on Beinecke Plaza, became the third prominent national figure to speak out this week in favor of Yale's unions. Dean's speech followed those by fellow presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Lieberman '64 LAW '67 and the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday and Wednesday, respectively.

UConn Lab Workers Join Union
(Hartford Courant, 8/30/03)
Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center have voted to join a union, one of the first times that non-faculty laboratory scientists have organized in the United States.

Postdoctoral researchers vote to unionize
(Associated Press, 8/30/03)
Postdoctoral researchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center voted to unionize Friday, one of the first groups of non-faculty laboratory scientists in the country to organize.

Channel 8 Strike Coverage -- Day Three
August 29, 2003, Evening News
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Jackson points to America's failures
(New Haven Register, 8/29/03)
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson used the 40th anniversary of the March on Washington, D.C., Thursday to lament America�s broken promises of opportunity involving jobs, education and equality ... He was the main speaker at a rally of some 2,000 striking workers at Yale who marched from the Green to the Cedar Street site of Yale�s $300 million Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education.

Yale, unions agree to meet
(New Haven Register, 8/29/03)
Yale University and its unions have agreed to resume talking with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. about contract issues, even as a strike of clerical, technical and service workers enters its third day today.

Y-NH, union agree to resume talks
(New Haven Register, 8/29/03)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson got Yale-New Haven Hospital officials and union leaders representing 140 striking workers to agree Thursday to return to the negotiating table.

City's 1st Ward rivals differ on Yale strike
(New Haven Register, 8/29/03)
As the campaign for the Nov. 4 aldermanic election heats up, 1st Ward candidates Daniel Kruger and incumbent Benjamin Healey have emerged with diverging viewpoints on the Yale labor walkout. While the candidates stress support for Yale workers, Healey, a Democrat, is supportive of the job action as a negotiation tactic, and Kruger is not. Kruger, an independent, calls on the unions to end the strike, which he says is "not the right way" to encourage contract settlements.

Workers' Strike Hinders Arrival of Yale Students
(New York Times, 8/28/03)
More than 2,500 of Yale University workers went on strike today as undergraduates began returning to campus, solidifying Yale's reputation as having the most contentious labor relations of any university in the nation. The walkout, the second at Yale this year and the ninth since 1968, was timed to maximize pressure on Yale's administration.

Channel 8 Strike Coverage
Inside Video on Retirees sit-in at Yale Investments Office (or read it)
1pm Video on Retirees sit-in Victory (or read it)
5pm Video, with Chopper Cam shots of the marchers from the air (or read it)
6pm Video on the strike (or read it)
11pm Video on the strike (or read it)
Video of interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson

Students Return To A Yale On Strike
Workers Seeking Better Benefits Rally With Jesse Jackson As University Makes Plans To Cope
(Hartford Courant, 8/28/03)
As families dropped off their children for a new semester at Yale on Wednesday, a few thousand striking university workers, a group of senior citizens known as "The Fearless Five" and the Rev. Jesse Jackson were there to greet them. Charging that Yale has failed to make an acceptable contract offer, two union locals representing more than 4,000 workers began a strike at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. They are billing it as the largest and most disruptive work stoppage in the long history of labor disputes at the university.

Jackson leads rally of 1,000 workers
(New Haven Register, 8/28/03)
Both sides felt they held their own on the first day of a strike at Yale University Wednesday, as the clerical, technical and maintenance workers walked out over wages, pensions and back pay. It was the ninth strike in 38 years, and while the parties did not meet in a formal bargaining session, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, met separately with each side.

Obstacles await Yalies
(New Haven Register, 8/28/03)
Avi Perry, a Yale junior, unloaded his car on College Street as striking workers flooded the street, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, chanting, "All we want is a contract." Other families of Yale students stood on sidewalks, holding boxes, waiting for the marching unions to pass. "It�s absolutely crazy," Perry said, a perplexed look on his face.

Get back to the bargaining table!
(New Haven Register Editorial, 8/28/03)
We don�t pretend to know who is right and who is wrong in this dispute. But we do know that nothing will be solved until the talking starts again.

Yale retirees get meeting
(New Haven Register, 8/28/03)
When five Yale retirees stepped into the sun and noise of Whitney Avenue Wednesday afternoon after spending the night sleeping on the floor of a university conference room, younger supporters were waiting with hugs and boisterous cheers. The five protesters, whose average age was more than 70 years, had spent most of the previous 27 hours inside before finally getting the meeting they wanted with Yale Chief Investments Officer David F. Swensen.

Yale braces for long strike
(New Haven Register, 8/27/03)
Mayor John DeStefano Jr. brought leaders from Yale University and its unions, including Yale President Richard C. Levin, together Tuesday in a last ditch effort to forestall a major strike set to take place this morning at 12:01. In the meantime, eight Yale retirees were staging a sit-in at the office of David F. Swensen, the university's chief investment officer, which began just after noon. The group meet with civil rights leader Jesse Jackson shortly before 8 p.m. and in an impromptu press conference said they planned to remain there until Yale agreed to improve its pensions.

Yale strike deadline
(WTNH Channel 8, 8/26/03)
Watch Video of News Story on Retirees' Sit-In
Watch Video of News Story on Start of Strike
Watch Video of Interview with Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.

NAACP adds voice to Yale labor dispute
(New Haven Register, 8/27/03)
The Greater New Haven NAACP, after having looked at the current contract dispute and other issues, is offering "constructive criticism" to both Yale and Local 34 and Local 35, who are about to go on strike this morning over stalled talks. Scot X. Esdaile, president of the branch, suggested Yale change the names of its residential colleges named for slaveholders, such as John Davenport, Jonathan Edwards, Ezra Stiles, John C. Calhoun and Timothy Dwight, among others.

Yale Workers Plan Strike for the Opening of a New Semester
(New York Times, 8/26/03)
Thousands of Yale undergraduates are to arrive on campus tomorrow, only to be greeted by an unwelcome but all-too-familiar sight: the ninth labor walkout at Yale in 35 years. The open-ended strike by janitorial, dining hall and clerical workers is timed to maximize pressure on Yale officials, who insist that a walkout is misguided because, they say, the university has made an unusually generous contract offer.

Yale's union employees threaten strike
(Boston Globe, 8/26/03)
When thousands of Yale students arrive on campus to start school this week, they might be greeted with union picket signs and fast-food vouchers instead of a seat in one of the school's lofty, wood-paneled dining halls.

4,000 workers ready to walk Wednesday
(New Haven Register, 8/26/03)
With Yale University's unions headed for their ninth strike, U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman Monday appealed to the administration to submit their proposal to binding arbitration. "I have read those advertisements. I've read those letters," Lieberman told several hundred cheering union workers who gathered outside Yale President Richard C. Levin's office. "If Yale is so confident about the offer they have made, submit it to binding arbitration." A 1964 Yale College graduate and 1967 graduate of Yale Law School, Lieberman said, "from everything that I see, considering where the economy is, where the university is, the union's request is fair."

Both sides gear up for strike at Yale
(New Haven Register, 8/24/03)
With two days to go before a strike deadline at Yale University, preparations on both sides for a long walkout are in high gear with nervous workers and even presidential candidates weighing in on the fight.

City businesses are strike-weary
(New Haven Register, 8/24/03)
Anyone who�s operated a business for any length of time in the city understands that a Yale University strike just comes with the territory.

Unions not pleased with Yale's latest offer
(New Haven Register, 8/22/03)
An angry union leadership, disappointed in Yale University�s response to its latest proposal, predicted Thursday that workers are headed for "one of the most highly visible strikes" in the long history of bad labor relations between the parties. Stalled negotiations have been working up against a Wednesday strike deadline, the day students start returning to the campus. It will be the ninth strike in 38 years.

Yale unions offer counter-proposal
(New Haven Register, 8/20/03)
By adjusting wage and job security proposals, as well as withdrawing neutrality language around organizing, Yale's unions Tuesday said they were offering a "road map" to a contract and a way to "break the cycle of strikes." Local 34 and Local 35 of the Federation of University Employees have been at the bargaining table for 18 months and have set an Aug. 26 midnight deadline to strike if they can't reach an agreement for their 4,000 workers. The unions said the major changes would save approximately $50 million over the life of the proposal.

Yale unions withdraw some demands a week before strike date
(Associated Press, 8/19/03)
Two Yale University labor unions dropped several contract proposals Tuesday -- including a demand to help hospital workers and graduate students organize --in an effort to get a new contract and avoid a strike.

Workers plan strike for day Yale opens dorms
Union leaders say Yale, unions made little progress this summer
(Yale Daily News, 8/18/03)
Members of Yale's two largest unions, who say they made little progress this summer in contract negotiations with the University, plan to stop work and go on strike Aug. 27, the day the University opens its housing to students.

Yale Official To Become FAS Registrar This Fall
(Harvard Crimson, 8/15/03)
Harvard has swiped a Yale official to fill its vacant Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) registrar position come October, officials announced yesterday. Barry S. Kane--who comes from the corresponding position in New Haven to replace Harvard's outgoing FAS Registrar Arlene Becella--said yesterday that his tenure as registrar could see important changes in student services such as the course selection process.

Stop, Thief!
The campaign against the great New Haven Savings heist
(New Haven Advocate, 8/14/03)
Now a new gang is preparing to rip off New Haven and devastate neighborhoods, while heisting not millions but billions of dollars to feed their greed. This gang, run by New Haven Savings Bank prez Peyton Patterson and her posse of execs and supposedly community-minded board of directors, makes KSI and the Jungle Boys look like amateurs in comparison.

Yale sweetens offer to unions
(New Haven Register, 8/14/03)
Yale's unions reacted cautiously Wednesday to an enhanced contract proposal by the university, saying it moved in the right direction for pensions, but was still inadequate on wages.

Yale and Unions Resume Talks
(New York Times, 8/14/03)
Yale University and two labor unions representing 4,000 clerical and maintenance workers began contract negotiations on Tuesday, in an effort to avert another strike.

Yale Makes New Offer To Unions
(Associated press, 8/13/03)
With a strike date approaching, Yale University offered wage and pension increases and a $1,500 signing bonus Wednesday to two labor unions representing 4,000 clerical and maintenance workers.

City policing at Y-NH working well
(New Haven Register, 8/14/03)
City police officials said a new arrangement where they handle arrests at Yale-New Haven Hospital is "working out well," although the hospital still hopes for a return to using its own personnel. Constables at Y-NH lost their powers off arrest in mid-May, and on July 4 the constable status itself expired, reducing the 54-member constable staff to security guard status. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. revoked the arrest powers because he felt the constables had abused them last fall when they arrested several union organizers who were leafleting on hospital property.
Register Editorial: Hospital needs more police

Yale, unions continue contract talks
(New Haven Register, 8/13/03)
The only agreement reached at Yale University labor talks Tuesday was to talk some more. It was the first full bargaining session since spring and the first meeting since high level talks in June failed to close a deal for the 4,000 clerical, technical and maintenance workers at the university.

Yale, unions restart talks to avert strike
(Associated press, 8/12/03)
Yale University and two labor unions representing 4,000 clerical and maintenance workers began contract negotiations Tuesday, in an effort to avert another strike.

New faces join in Yale labor talks
(New Haven Register, 8/11/03)
Anticipating how "incredibly disruptive" the strike will be in New Haven as students return to the campus, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. was concerned with one of the management changes. Bruce Alexander will assume the role of acting vice president for finance and administration on Sept. 1, taking over for Robert Culver who is leaving after two years to relocate to the Boston area for personal reasons.

Colleges Feel Ache Of Visa Rules
(Hartford Courant, 8/71/03)
Empty dorm rooms. A shortage of teaching assistants. Lost tuition revenue. A month away from the start of a new school year, colleges in Connecticut and across the country are bracing for a second year of headaches involving foreign students who are unable to obtain visas by the time classes begin.

Yale Unions Threaten A 2nd Strike
(Hartford Courant, 7/31/03)
Thousands of unionized workers at Yale University are threatening to strike a second time as students arrive for fall semester if a long-running contract dispute is not settled. Workers claim that wages on the Ivy League campus - New Haven's largest employer - are so low that many are forced to work second jobs and, even after a lifetime of service, work during retirement because of thin pensions.

Yale unions turn up the heat in August
(New Haven Register, 7/31/03)
Unions representing Yale workers are calling for round-the-clock negotiations next month to settle a contract stalemate, but they vowed a late-August walkout if those talks fail. Locals 34 and 35 of the Federation of University Employees on Wednesday announced a strike deadline of Aug. 27, a date that roughly coincides with the return of thousands of students to campus for the start of fall semester.

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