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Authors and Academics in support of Yale's workers

We stand in solidarity with the workers at Yale who were forced to go out on strike. We call on Yale to:

* Sit down with the graduate teachers and researchers of GESO, and work out an agreement on a democratic, fair, fast process for them to decide whether they want to unionize.

* Facilitate negotiations between District 1199 and the management of Yale’s teaching hospital, and help work out an agreement on a democratic, fair, fast process for them to decide whether they want to unionize. (The hospital’s board of trustees includes President Levin and other Yale officers ex officio.)

* End de facto racial segregation among Yale’s workforce by creating programs to hire more local Latinos and to train those at the bottom -- mostly African-Americans -- so they can move into higher-skilled jobs.

* Settle fair contracts with Locals 34 and 35 so that these workers can support a family without working two or three jobs, and can retire with dignity.

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More news about Yale unions:
www.yaleunions.org

More news about Yale University and hospital:
www.yaleinsider.org

Connecticut Center for a New Economy:
www.ctneweconomy.org

Yale's official sites:
www.yale.edu
www.ynhh.org

Cornel West
University Professor, Princeton, Department of Religion

Jonathan King
Professor, MIT, Department of Biology

Barbara Ehrenreich
Author, Nickel & Dimed

Richard Lewontin
Professor Emeritus, Harvard, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology

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