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Friday, April 16, 2004

BACK IN BLACK (BACK IN ZACH?)

My senior essay complete, I now have my life back, and can once more attend UOC meetings, organize, blog, hang out, and be happy, not necessarily in that order. In honor of me finishing my essay, I give you a few choice quotations I came across in my research:

“Yale’s alleged concern for the poor of New Haven is a farce. The employees of the university are the working poor of this city.” - Local 35 Business agent and New Haven CLC President Vincent J Sirabella, 4/30/1971

“Yale workers hardly constitute a normal union. In fact, they’re not really a union at all. They’re a movement.” - Sherman Chickering in The New Journal, October, 1971

"Local 35’s strike suggests a strategy for all New Haveners. Unions could together lead our fight. The strategy, to begin with, would simply be a commitment by all organized labor to support for mayor, aldermen, etc. only those candidates who agree to tax Yale – one way or another-without letting Yale pass the burden to its workers. The political base furnished by organized unions might then carry this tax Yale campaign to the rest of New Haven’s people.
Unions can strike politically as well as economically. The solidarity backing local 35 can also make a solid front to relieve New Haveners tax burdens. And besides the unions, are there really any other organizations of working people so well set up to win against Yale? At the very least, it’s worth trying." - Richard D. Wolff, Modern Times, 5/15/1971

"DON'T MOURN, ORGANIZE! ...How much education have you been cheated out of? How unhappy has your experience in graduate school been? Are you learning what you came to learn? If you’ve got a problem, we’ve all got a problem. Together we can solve it.” - Flyer for the Teaching Assisstants Organization, (TAO) April, 1972

“They can beat us on the streets of New Haven, but they’ll never beat us at the bargaining table,” - Sirabella, after a police riot at a union protest at Yale's commencement hospitalizd one worker and put twelve in jail.

¶ 10:37 PM

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