Lots of interesting stuff in today's YDN - like a report on the continuining racialized exclusion of latino workers from Yale's job structure, despite the alliance between Yale's unions and the new haven community to fight for change. One of the major victories that came out of the strike was the joint committee that the university, union, and community agreed to run together. Looks like Yale's been backtracking. Big surprise. Well, we aren't goin anywhere.

NEW GESO REPORT GESO has released its latest, most provocative, and maybe best report yet. The report looks at diversity in academia and the relationship between unionization and diversity. This should be required reading for every undergrad on this campus. You can read it here, and read what the YDN has to say about it here.

Working Moms and Women Confornt Linda Mason -- Again!
It's getting pretty clear that Yale Corporation member Linda Mason can't show her face around here without explaining how she purports to be a guru for working moms and yet remain totally unresponsive to the plight of working mothers at the institution on whose board of trustees she sits. From this article, it sounds like yesterday's action was as powerful as the one last semester, when corporation members like Sutter Hill's own Len Baker and Tricky Dick Levin rushed from the room rather than risk being engaged in conversation by the women of local 34, local 35, GESO, and the women and men of the Undergraduate Organizing Committee, who came to talk about her book, which tells us how to use our maternity leave and flexible scheduling. (Yale employees don't get maternity leave or flexible scheduling, and many of them have had to take second or third jobs, although some of the ganisn secured by the strike victory may help to alleviate this.)

Where's Peyton?
They finally commit to an open hearing, and then they schedule it in Hamden, immediately after people get off work, so no one who works a 9 to 5 could possibly show up, then they pack the place with bank middle management forcibly sent to the site at 4 pm so that the community can't even get inside. And to top things off, the Bank trustees don't even show up. Well, my concerns about the demutualization are totally alleviated now. Yay capitalism! Fortunately for the future of this city, nobody else bought the bullshit.

people weren't particularly happy about the metal detector searches at the door either.
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