Kevin Swain
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Graduate student leaders push for reforms

Three of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ representative bodies — the Graduate Student Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the graduate […]

Graduate students join in hurricane relief effort

In the aftermath of back-to-back hurricane catastrophes that battered regions of Texas, Louisiana and Florida, a group of Yale graduate students is planning an event […]

Graduate student leaders partner on key issues

Both Yale’s Graduate Student Assembly and Graduate and Professional Student Senate, which together represent around 7,000 students across the University, are entering the academic year […]

Local 33 weighs next steps

Local 33 now faces a difficult question: What’s next?

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Local 33 members begin hunger strike

Eight members of the graduate student union Local 33 began an indefinite, collective fast until Yale begins negotiations.

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Local 33 department tally rises to eight

The graduate student union Local 33 last week conceded 41 challenged ballots with the National Labor Relations Board in the Political Science and East Asian […]

Local 33 extends deadline for negotiations

Graduate student union Local 33 gave Yale a 13-day extension on its original April 12 deadline to open labor negotiations.

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Local 33 looks to begin negotiations

Two days after the graduate student union Local 33 presented a petition, the road ahead remains unclear.

After union votes, Yale weighs its options

Yale is weighing its legal options in the wake of a stinging defeat at the polls.

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GSA, GPSS stay their path after union vote

Local 33 became the third main platform for graduate student organizing last Thursday.

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Six departments vote to unionize

Math, Sociology, History, History of Art, Geology and Geophysics and English all voted to join Local 33. The Physics Department voted against joining the union.