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The Facts About GESO:
GESO Bankrolled by National Union (Yale Daily News - February 10, 1999)
Yale Claims Victory with NLRB Settlement (Yale Daily News - April 3, 2000)
In Toronto, a TA Strike is Crippling (Yale Daily News - January 23, 2001)
GESO Relies on Recognized Union Support (Yale Daily News - February 5, 2001)
Students: GESO Guilty of Harassment (Yale Daily News - January 19, 2001)
GASO Gives GESO a Ribbing (Yale Daily News - January 12, 2001)
GESO Nixes Invitation to Meet with Yale in Forum (Yale Daily News - March 2, 2001)
NLRB Dismisses Two GESO Charges (Yale Daily News - November 1, 2001)
A GESO Monopoly on the Town Meeting (Yale Daily News - March 1, 2002)
GESO "Neutrality Agreement" not Neutral at all (Yale Daily News - January 15, 2002)
Yale Slavery Report Questioned by Experts (Yale Daily News - December 12, 2001)
YCC Ends Support of Card-Count Neutrality (Yale Daily News - April 8, 2002)
Disingenuous Dealings Ruin 'New Tone' (Yale Daily News - September 6, 2002)
GESO Members Vote to Strike (Yale Daily News - February 20, 2003) (484 votes to strike of 2,400+ graduate students)
Graduate Students Vote Down Unionization (Yale Daily News - May 1, 2003)
Critics See Little Change in GESO after April Defeat (Yale Daily News - September 9, 2003)
Just Ask a Worker: Stories from the Ground of Shameful Union Tactics (Yale Daily News - September 16, 2003)
Grad School Ups Stipends (Yale Daily News - February 10, 2004)
NLRB Rules Against Grad Student Unions (Yale Daily News - July 18, 2004)
Quetsions Linger after GESO's Vote (Yale Daily News - April 15, 2005)
GESO is Wrong for Yale
From One Graduate Student to Another, Why Pass on GESO (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - April 19, 2005)
Respect for the Other Side Too (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - April 15, 2005)
For Graduate Students, Strike is Wrong Move (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - April 13, 2005)
GESO Comes Up Short on Critera for Real Union (Opinion Colymn, Yale Daily News - April 13, 2005)
Agitating Isn't the Same Thing as Reforming (Opinion Column, Yale Daily News - February 24, 2005)
An Open Letter to GESO on Addressing Graduate Students' Concerns (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - February 23, 2005)
For GESO, the Medium Supports the Message (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - February 4, 2005)
Earth to GESO: Efforts to Unionize are Lost Cause (YDN Column, Yale Daily News - January 12, 2005)
Now Hiring: Koffee Too, but not Grad School (YDN Column, Yale Daily News - September 3, 2004)
GESO Cannot Have it Both Ways (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - September 5, 2003)
Despite Illegitimacy, Vote in GESO "Vote" Today (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - April 30, 2003)
Avoid the April 30 GESO Poll on Unionization: It's a Sham (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - April 25, 2003)
GESO: Aka the Graduate Evil Socialist Organization (YDN Column, Yale Daily News - March 5, 2003)
Most Graduate Students Have no Major Problems with Yale (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - March 4, 2003)
Does Supporting Locals 34 and 35 Mean Backing GESO? (Guest Column, Yale Daily News, March 3, 2003)
An Open Letter to GESO from the Non-organized Majority (YDN Column, Yale Daily News - February 27, 2003)
Anti-GESO Students, don't give in to Peer Pressure (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - February 25, 2003)
What does GESO have to do with Locals 34 and 35? (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - February 25, 2003)
GESO Silences Dissenters (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - February 21, 2003)
Why Doesn't GESO Just Take a Vote? (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - February 21, 2003)
GESO? More like GSUCK (YDN Column, Yale Daily News - February 21, 2003)
GESO, Strike Plan Misguided (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - February 20, 2003)
GESO's Aggressive Tactics Hurt Cause (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - December 11, 2002)
Sorry, GESO: I Don't Want to be in your Club (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - October 31, 2002)
What GESO Won't Tell You: They're Afraid, Very Afraid, of an Election (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - October 28, 2002)
Yale, GESO: Take a Lesson from Cornell (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - October 23, 2002)
Unions and Civil Disobedience (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - September 25, 2002)
Yale, Workers Benefit from Union-Free Community (Opinion Column, Yale Daily News - September 6, 2002)
Grad Students Don't Have Anything to Whine About (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - April 24, 2002)
GESO's Strongarm Tactics an Affront to Democracy (Opinion Column, Yale Daily News - March 5, 2002)
Is GESO Afraid of an Open, Candid Debate? (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - March 1, 2002)
Union Attacks on Yale Unjustified (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - September 27, 2002)
GESO May Struggle, but not for Democracy (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - September 6, 2001)
GESO: Empty Populist Platitudes (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - April 20, 2001)
YCC's Misguided Neutrality Resolution (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - April 18, 2001)
GESO Should Have Participated in GSA Town Meeting (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - April 11, 2001)
Denning Improperly let GESO Hijack DeVane Lectures (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - February 15, 2001)
GESO Takes on the Democratic Vista (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - February 12, 2001)
GESO Ignores Concerns of Many Grad Students (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - January 19, 2001)
Merits of Unionization are Unsatisfactory (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - December 7, 2000)
GESO Dangerous for University, Students (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - October 19, 1999)
GESO, A Tool of Powerful and Corrupt Unions (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - April 21, 1999)
Dishonorable GESO Doesn't Represent Students (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - March 2, 1999)
Graduate Students Should Not Unionize (YDN Editorial, Yale Daily News - January 26, 1999)
To GESO: We Are Not Exploited by Yale (YDN Guest Column - December 9, 1998)
Contradiction and Inconsistency in GESO Ranks (Letter to the Editor, Yale Daily News - October 16, 1998)
Unionization No Answer for Grad School (Guest Column, Yale Daily News - October 16, 1998)
GESO Lies
Richard Responds to GESO Study (YDN, April 16, 1999)
GESO Did Not Cause Yale to Raise Stipends (YDN, February 5, 1999)
YDN Clarification: GSA Does Not Support GESO (YDN, October 27, 1998)
GESO to Announce Majority Support (YDN, April 23, 2002)
History is not in 'Transience' Crisis (YDN, October 16, 2003)
GESO's Claim of 'Overwhelming Support' Unfounded (YDN, April 18, 2005)
Why Won't GESO Release Vote Tally? (YDN, April 20, 2005)
The AFL-CIO Agenda
GESO's Agenda is a Crucial Part of Local Union's Efforts (January 14, 2005)
Bob Proto, longtime union boss, admits that the AFL-CIO is using GESO as a ploy to gain leverage against Yale. This further proves that GESO does not have the best interests of Yale's graduate students at heart, but rather is beholden to the AFL-CIO.
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