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YALE STRIKE--AGAIN Graduate students back union workers and seek right to organize
GESO is also pressing the university to improve its treatment of students and to work out a procedure to allow students to vote on whether to unionize. The university plans to hold negotiations with students and union members during spring break this week. The campus has experienced eight strikes in the course of 11 contract negotiations over the past 35 years, according to the unions. But Yale administrators said the university "remains hopeful that new contracts can be reached in the near future." Chemistry department Chairman Andrew D. Hamilton said last week that "at this stage, there hasn't been any disruption in the function of the chemistry department. Only a handful of students are participating in the strike, and, consequently, all of our classes, teaching labs, and research labs are running as normal." Fifth-year graduate student Lara A. Estroff said that chemistry students who support the movement want more say in intellectual property issues, health care for dependents, diversity, and training in English for international students. They are also seeking fairer pay scales to address such disparities as the smaller stipend that physical scientists receive compared with biological and life scientists. Other institutions that have recently experienced unionization drives include Cornell University, whose graduate students rejected unionization last fall, and Columbia University and Tufts University, which have challenged the right of students to unionize. |
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