Tag: union

2500 Protest at Yale Graduation – Fast Ends

Fasts End As Grads, Protesters Fill Streets by LUCY GELLMAN | May 22, 2017 3:13 pm – New Haven Independent Paul Bass Photo Two separated seas of gowns — one orange, one black — replaced cars on New Haven’s streets, as…

Yale Commencement Disruption Planned May 22

Local 33 plans major Commencement Day protest DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY MAY 15, 2017 STAFF REPORTER Yale Daily News Local 33 and its peer organizations are planning a major demonstration for Commencement Day, as the graduate student union continues to escalate its labor battle…

Top CEOs Make 350 Times More Than Average Employee

Study Shows Income Gap Avoiding corporate income taxes is one way CEOs boost their companies’ profits and thereby increase their own pay. $13.1M The average compensation for an S&P 500 CEO last year. 347 Times more the average S&P 500…

Yale Hunger Strike for a Union

NYT The Opinion Pages Why Yale Graduate Students Are on a Hunger Strike Jennifer Klein ON CAMPUS MAY 9, 2017 Graduate student teachers at Yale erected a shelter in front of the offices of the president to protest the university’s…

CEA New Exec Dir is Don Williams

Next teachers’ union leader is former state Senate leader By: JACQUELINE RABE THOMAS | May 8, 2017 Donald E. Williams Jr. has been named the next leader of the state’s largest teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association, a political powerhouse with…