Why Yale Graduate Teachers Were Arrested for Fighting Workplace Sexual Harassment Yesterday morning twenty-three graduate teachers at Yale were arrested after shutting down the streets of New Haven to demand the administration address the pervasive sexual harassment they face as workers at the university. They called on Yale to begin negotiating a union contract that would strengthen protections against harassment of graduate teachers. Yesterday’s action was the latest step in a campaign to get Yale to comply with its legal obligations to graduate workers. In February, teachers in eight Yale departments voted to unionize, following the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) decision in August to recognize graduate teachers as workers with ... Continue reading... http://feministing.com/2017/05/12/w...ted-for-fighting-workplace-sexual-harassment/
