Building Bridges Radio-Yale on Strike

Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report – National Edition

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Presents

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STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!

Picketing, Angry Chants, Sit-ins & Arrests ; Is This Higher Education?

You Betya!




Yale University on Strike. What's Going On?



Laura Smith, Pres. Local 34, HERE, Yale University

Virginia Henry, Custodian, Local 35 Negotiating Committee, HERE, Yale University

Bill Myerson, Communications Organizer, Fed.of Hospital & University Employees, Yale University

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Two thousand clerical, dining hall and maintenance workers have been forced to strike at Yale University. New students on the Yale campus were witness to the arrest of over 100 strikers and

their supporters arrested during their first days on campus. Yale University has cemented its reputation as having the worst labor relations of any university in the nation.

So what's happening in higher education? Well, let's go back to school and find out.



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