Hunger Strike at Yale

Yale graduate student teachers and members of UNITE HERE Local 33 have staged a hunger strike. According to the UNITE HERE website, UNITE HERE represents workers throughout the U.S. and Canada who work in the hotel, gaming, food service, airport, textile, manufacturing, distribution, laundry, and transportation industries.  Luther Turmelle has the story in the New Haven Register.

Eight Yale University graduate teachers have begun an indefinite fast in an effort to pressure university officials to begin negotiating with them.

The march was organized in an effort to pressure university officials to begin negotiating with graduate teachers in eight academic departments following the outcome of a Feb. 23 vote by graduate student teachers in several departments to form a union.