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SUPPORT YALE UNIONS: sign the petition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stephanie wei Wang)
Sun Apr 20 18:04:50 2003
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To: labor-announce@mit.edu, peace-announce@mit.edu, greens-announce@mit.edu
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 18:04:28 -0400
From: stephanie wei Wang <sweiwang@MIT.EDU>
note professor king of biology at mit is one of the sponsoring academics!
http://www.petitiononline.com/yale2/petition.html
To: Yale President Richard Levin
We stand in solidarity with the workers at Yale who were forced to go out on strike. We call on Yale to:
* Sit down with the graduate teachers and researchers of GESO, and work out an agreement on a democratic, fair, fast process for them to decide whether they want to unionize.
* Facilitate negotiations between District 1199 and the management of Yale's teaching hospital, and help work out an agreement on a democratic, fair, fast process for them to decide whether they want to unionize. (The hospital's board of trustees includes President Levin and other Yale officers ex officio.)
* End de facto racial segregation among Yale's workforce by creating programs to hire more local Latinos and to train those at the bottom -- mostly African-Americans -- so they can move into higher-skilled jobs.
* Settle fair contracts with Locals 34 and 35 so that these workers can support a family without working two or three jobs, and can retire with dignity.
SPONSORING AUTHORS AND ACADEMICS:
Cornel West
University Professor, Princeton, Department of Religion
Author, Race Matters
Jonathan King
Professor, MIT, Department of Biology
Barbara Ehrenreich
Author, Nickel & Dimed
Richard Lewontin
Professor Emeritus, Harvard, Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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Stephanie Wei Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
sweiwang@mit.edu
