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A 4 page overview of the labor strike that occurred at Yale University in 2003. Everyone it seems had an agenda in the 2003 Yale University Strike. While the strike was supported by national labor unions, the employees that were striking were quite dissimilar to the employees that spawned those labor unions to inception around the turn of the twentieth century! Citing the tremendous costs and ludicrouscy of the Yale strike, the author of this paper suggests abolishing the unions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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at Yale University walked off the job. They did so as part of an organized labor strike. Their intent was to protest what they considered inferior pay and
retirement benefits (Innskeep, 2003). The situation that spurred the Yale strike, however, was actually considerably more complex than labor relations within the university (Innskeep, 2003). Richard Levin, Yales
President, blames part of the problem on the collapse of the manufacturing industry that had operated in New Haven and the massive loss of jobs that the community had endured
over the last thirty years (Innskeep, 2003). During the strike Levin contended that as a consequence:
"That sort of focused all the energy of the local labor movement on to the one remaining large unionized employer. That was Yale. So, in a sense, were
bearing the burden of what is an unfortunate and bitter economic history of the New Haven community" (Innskeep, 2003).
Levin further contended that what was actually unfolding at Yale was orchestrated by labor unions with the purpose of using Yale as a "national platform
for publicity for the labor movement and for organizing efforts" (Innskeep, 2003). In effect, the president of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney, concurred during the strike that his intent
was to draw national attention on the industry and on Yale (Innskeep, 2003). In the meantime, students and faculty at Yale were somewhat at a loss as to what to
do. Some supported the union and others supported the universities. Many grad students had already formed their own union and had threatened to walk off their jobs as
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