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Local 33

Toeing the Line: Local 33’s Protest Tactics and Their Impact on Public Opinion

Justin JinJune 5, 2017June 5, 2017

“I think a lot of protests focus on sensationalism, but I think making sure your people are empowered and in it for the long haul [is] key.”

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A Yale College Graduate’s Defense of Local 33

Angelina XingMay 31, 2017June 2, 2017

“Graduate students at private universities have the right to unionize as workers, and it is time for Yale to recognize that right.”

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Salovey Gets It Right: On Fasting in the Ivory Tower

Katherine KidneyMay 4, 2017May 4, 2017

Local 33 is wrong to invoke historical examples of human rights abuses to glorify their protests.

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The Fast Against the Slow: Local 33 Hunger Strike Outside Woolsey

Eileen JohnsonApril 27, 2017April 27, 2017

“We’ll be here and we’ll be here fasting until the University sits down to negotiate with us,” said Greenberg.

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Humor: Rebels Defy President-for-life Salovey

Megan McQueenApril 26, 2017April 26, 2017

The hipsters are fasting, and they’re doing it in style.

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A Union in Name Only

Alexandru GeorgescuFebruary 28, 2017March 17, 2017

“As usual, Local 33 has put the ‘idea of a union’ above the very real lives a union is meant to improve.”

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