Retirees hope for more aid
Despite the University’s current budgetary malaise, the president of the Yale Unions Retiree Association told the News on Monday that she hopes Yale administrators will increase the pensions of some retirees in the upcoming negotiations for Yale Local 34 and Local 35 union contracts, which expire in less than a year.
Currently, pre-2002 retirees’ pensions are 35 percent lower than those of subsequent retirees’ due to a 2003 contract negotiation.
But in the first public comments made by Yale union affiliates regarding upcoming contract negotiations, YURA President Doris...
