Re: Yale TA strike and actions

[Scott Marshall <Scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A salute to Patrick - one of those arrested and a marx-l list member!

At 02:01 PM 1/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>*************Press Release*************
>For Immediate Release
>
>Contact : James Delle,  Co-President, Graduate Employees
>Organization, Local 2322 U.A.W.
>        UMASS-Amherst, 413-545-0705
>
>Four UMASS-Amherst Graduate Students
>Arrested at Yale Union Protest
>
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>Four University of Massachusetts at Amherst Graduate
>Students were among 130 people arrested  Wednesday at a
>Union Rally at Yale University.  The Four were part of a
>delegation of graduate students who went to Yale to support
>the controversial union drive among graduate employees at
>the ivy league school.  The four are all members of the
>Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), the union that
>represents graduate employees at UMASS.
>
>Chris Johnson, Frances Young,Patrick Crowley and one other
>student were among those carted off in school buses to the
>New Haven Police Headquarters where they were photographed,
>processed, and given citations for "disorderly conduct."
>All four are planning to contest their citations and will
>most likely have to return to New Haven to answer to a
>Connecticut Court.
>
>The UMASS students were arrested while protesting the hard-
>line stance the administration of Yale has taken against the
>union drive amongst its graduate employees.  During the
>protest, three of the union leaders were standing before a
>disciplinary board at Yale, answering charges about improper
>academic conduct.  The three Yale students face expulsion if
>found guilty by the administration.  Because two of the
>three are foreign students, they could be forced out of the
>country.
>
>The debate at Yale is whether or not graduate teaching
>assistants are employees or not.  The Yale administration
>contends that they are only students and therefore they do
>not need a union to represent them.  The UMASS delegation
>views the stance of the Yale administration as "union
>busting" and were willing to be arrested to stop Yale from
>treating fellow graduate students so cruelly.
>
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