Yale grad students march, deliver union petition to provost’s office
Source: NH Register
By Ed Stannard
NEW HAVEN >> More than 300 members and supporters of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization at Yale University marched down Hillhouse Avenue Tuesday to deliver a petition to Provost Ben Polak.
The petition, seeking to negotiate secure pay for upper-year graduate students, better mental health services and equity in race and gender, was signed by more than 1,100 members of GESO, organizers said. A laminated 200-foot-long version was carried two blocks to Polak’s office at 1 Hillhouse Ave. by chanting marchers.
“We are a union and we are not waiting for recognition to act like one,” said GESO co-chairwoman Robin Canavan, a third-year grad student in geology and geophysics, to the cheering crowd.
She called for more female faculty, particularly in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
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GESO members and supporters carry a petition calling on Yale University to negotiate on issues of secure pay, mental health services and racial and gender equity as they march down march down Hillhouse Avenue Tuesday in New Haven. Arnold Gold — New Haven Register
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