Support Graduate Teachers at Yale Fasting For Their Union

http://www.local33.org/

Graduate teachers at Yale University have been organizing for a union for over 25 years. In August of 2016, after decades of opposition from the Yale administration, they were finally given the right to unionize by the National Labor Relations Board. In February, graduate teachers in eight departments voted to form a union with Local 33–UNITE HERE in secret-ballot elections administered by the federal government, but Yale is refusing to meet its legal and moral obligation to negotiate. The Yale administration is using legal delay tactics to try to run out the clock until President Trump appoints new anti-union members to the NLRB who can take back the teachers’ rights to organize and crush the union. The teachers are fighting back and participating in an indefinite fast in protest of Yale’s refusal to negotiate and to take action on issues of widespread sexual harassment and racism on campus. A group of fasters has not eaten or had anything to drink except water since April 25.

Also check out this video about the Fast:
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Why Yale Graduate Students Are On A Hunger Strike: http://tinyurl.com/kzj8qoc

Yale refused the requests of the over 12,000 graduate teachers and allies who signed our letter to President Salovey calling on the administration to begin negotiations by April 12.
On 4/12 we, Local 33, made it clear what we think of Yale’s legal delay tactics and declared April 25 as the final deadline to come to the negotiating table. Read more.