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Unions to sign agreement 4.03.09

In less than two weeks, the University and its two labor unions, Locals 34 and 35, are slated to agree on a new three-year union contract, union members said Friday.

News analysis | Union propels HEI protests 12.03.08

The sit-in held by Yale’s Undergraduate Organizing Committee last month was just one of a dozen nationwide efforts to protest university investments in a hotel company. But all of the campaigns, though led by students, originated from the same place: a union, UNITE HERE.

Council honors union workers 12.02.08

Local union workers Avi Hassen and Gwendolyn Mills were the man and woman of the hour at the Monday’s Greater New Haven Central Labor Council holiday dinner.

After decision, Y-NH pays local union $2M 8.29.08

This month, Yale-New Haven Hospital paid $2 million to District 1199 of the Service Employees International Union as part of an arbitration deal forged after a near-decade-long battle between the two parties.

Unions protest Aramark contract 4.15.08

The steps of City Hall were hidden by a mass of green union T-shirts yesterday afternoon as New Haven Public Schools management, custodial and food-service workers held a rally to urge city leaders not to renew Aramark’s contract as the school system’s food-service provider.

Unions protest Aramark’s food, employee treatment 2.04.08

About 300 people gathered at the First & Summerfield United Methodist Church on Friday afternoon to protest what they called the food-service-management company’s poor food quality, poor treatment of workers and poor financial returns. But an Aramark spokeswoman maintains that the company has good relationships with unions, which she said are “misinforming” the workers.

Aramark faces allegations in city schools 2.01.08

Aramark, the food-services company formerly employed by Yale University Dining Services, is now facing allegations of mismanagement and poor food quality from cafeteria workers and custodians in New Haven Public Schools.

Report finds race profiling did not occur 12.05.07

Yale University library staff did not racially profile a library employee last month, according to a report released Tuesday following a three-day investigation by Yale’s Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, library and Local 34 union officials said.

Library staff accused of race profiling 11.28.07

Union leaders are now asking University Librarian Alice Prochaska to apologize for what they called an incidence of racial profiling.

Workers urged to sign petition 10.26.07

At the urging of a local immigration-reform group, a number of Yale dining hall workers, custodians and service personnel signed a petition on Thursday urging Local 35 leaders to abandon the union’s policy of transferring member dues to a pro-immigration rights national affiliate.

Hospital ordered to pay $4.5M 10.24.07

Marking a watershed in the unionization dispute between Yale-New Haven Hospital and the union seeking to organize workers there, an independent arbitrator has ordered the hospital to pay employees and the union $4.5 million in damages.