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Labor, Yale keep talking
Unions, University officials work toward 'best practices' framework
When Yale and its unions announced an eight-year contract agreement on Sept. 18, negotiators vowed to use the extended contract term to improve the two sides' contentious relationship. Now leaders on both sides are starting to hold meetings to decide...
Proto eyes penalties for non-strikers
Union hopes to assemble committee by end of next week
Union leaders are considering ways to penalize workers who did not participate in the three-week strike earlier this month, Local 35 President Bob Proto said Thursday. Proto said he already has appointed one member to a sub-committee that will work...
Union leaders to focus on organizing drives
With strike over, union leaders look to work on internal union matters
As workers return to work following a three-week strike, union leaders say they are planning to shift their focus to internal union matters and other organizing drives. Yale leaders, meanwhile, plan to focus on other parts of the University after...
Focus shifts to hospital contracts
Workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, who struck alongside Yale's unions for three weeks, will return to work today despite their own unresolved contract dispute. Members of the Service Employees International Union District 1199, which represents about...
Tensions possible in post-strike workplace
Nearly 4,000 Yale employees will return to work today with new contracts after union members ended a three-week strike Friday by ratifying an unprecedented eight-year job pact. With full dining hall service beginning this morning and offices expected...
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Yale and union leaders reached a tentative agreement on an unprecedented eight-year contract Thursday, ending a high profile 23-day strike and 19 months of contentious negotiations. Union leaders will present the agreements to their members today at...
Workers ratify contracts, will return to work Monday
Membership meeting votes are nearly unanimous
Union members nearly unanimously ratified eight-year contracts Friday afternoon, officially ending a three-week strike and one of Yale's most protracted labor disputes. Members of locals 34 and 35, the clerical, technical, service and maintenance...
Yale, unions close to settlement
Leaders to reconvene today; workers expect Monday return
As a high-profile strike by University workers entered its fourth week, Yale and its unions appeared close to a settlement Wednesday night after both sides reported progress on a number of contentious issues. Yale President Richard Levin and John...
Retirees begin vigil for pensions
Group will stay on Beinecke until settlement
A group of Yale retirees began a vigil outside University President Richard Levin's office Tuesday morning, saying they plan to stay in the shade on Beinecke Plaza until Yale and its unions reach a contract settlement. Retirees said they will sit in...
Thousands rally in support of Yale unions; more than 100 are arrested
Thousands of union workers from around the Northeast poured into downtown New Haven Saturday, joining hundreds of striking Yale workers in a massive sympathy rally that resulted in the arrests of over 100 union supporters. Workers from unions...