BEYOND THE HEDGES: Yale students threaten to hold tuition for fall

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Members of the Yale Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) plan to withhold their 1996 fall semester tuition payments to pressure the university to settle with striking workers in unions Local 34 and Local 35.

Yale's Local 34 staged a four-week strike before returning to work in early March. The union represents clerical, laboratory and technical workers at the university. Currently, members of Local 35, representing dining-hall, service and maintenance employees, have been on a two-week strike, which has shut down dining hall services and left students to fend for themselves with a weekly $105.84 check to compensate for their meal plan contracts.

SLAC member Nick Allen said, "What this protest accomplishes is essentially two things: One is a form of protest against the university because it has failed o provide us with the services guaranteed to us in the unspoken contract of tuition. Two, it provides the symbolic value of putting pressure on the university negotiators."

In protest of what SLAC calls "the Yale administration's exploitive labor policies," a third party escrow account will be created to hold the students' money until the strike is settled.

-- Compiled by Brooke Wooten, Staff Writer; Source: Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia University, April 8.

This item appeared in the News section of the April 26, 1996 issue.

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