Arielle Levin Becker
Negotiators start training today

The three-month pre-negotiation courtship between Yale and its unions will enter its final phase today, when negotiating teams from both sides begin training with a […]

NYU settles contracts with grad students

In a precedent-setting agreement that could resonate at universities nationwide, teaching assistants at New York University have reached an agreement on the first union contract […]

Agreement prevents TD workers from striking

Last summer, as Yale officials finalized the contracts for the renovations of Timothy Dwight College, they asked for assurances that construction workers would not walk […]

Yale donates land for new national park

Yale President Richard Levin has agreed to donate an estimated $15 million in University investment profits from the sale of its interest in the 100,000-acre […]

Consultant’s report may overestimate labor tension

In the days after a consultant’s report condemned the relationship between Yale and its unions as “dysfunctional,” union and University leaders uniformly praised the findings […]

Unions, University unite on MLK Day

Ward 7 Alderwoman Dolores Colon ’91 shared a stage with Yale President Richard Levin Monday as she spoke of traditionally elitist attitudes toward workers. Colon […]

University, unions seek new approach

Union and University leaders announced Monday that they would try a new approach to negotiating for union contracts this winter, hoping to replace the historically […]

Labor negotiators await report

With less than a week until contracts for Yale’s unions expire, University and union leaders are continuing to postpone the negotiation process as they meet […]

Penn grad students file for union election

A group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania began hearings with administrators Friday in response to a petition filed last month requesting a […]

Labor talks creep up on University

A look around campus today offers few clues to the impending contract negotiations between Yale and its unions. Missing are overt signs of the beginning […]

Grad student unions challenge academia

Ever since she helped found GESO, Eve Weinbaum ’84 GRD ’97 dreamed of being on a campus with a union for graduate students. She finally […]