Yale Alumni United
The "Graduate Employees and Students Organization" (GESO), funded primarily by local unions, wants to unionize Yale graduate students. They claim that graduate students who willingly choose to attend Yale require collective bargaining against the university because they spend time instructing undergraduates as part of their education. They claim that this teaching role qualifies them as union-eligible "employees" of Yale University, contrary to settled law.
Yale insists that graduate students are just that --- students. We agree. The correct model for higher education is a cooperative collaboration, not collective bargaining and unionization. The NLRB agrees and has specifically ruled that graduate students are not employees. In fact, the majority of graduate students agree -- in a vote run by GESO the majority of graduate students rejected unionization and GESO. Why won't GESO listen to their own vote?
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The Facts that GESO Doesn't Want You to Know
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