Support Yale strikers! (fwd)

Dear progressive academic:

Massachusetts Jobs with Justice is collecting as many signatures as
possible for the following letter to be sent to the administration at
Yale. To indicate your support, please send an e-mail to
berkshir@xxxxxxxxx with your name, title, department, and institutional
affiliation or call me at home (617-354-1504). You may also call the Jobs
with Justice office at (617)491-2525 or send a fax to JWJ at (617)876-6903.

Just a reminder, the striking workers at Yale have no strike fund and are
depending upon our solidarity during what promises to be a long struggle.
Please consider donating. Checks may be sent to the following address:

        Union Resource Committee, Locals 34 and 35, F.U.E.
        425 College St.,  New Haven, CT  06511.

Thanks for your support!

An open letter to the Administration of Yale University:

We, the undersigned, wish to express our deep concern regarding Yale
University's failure to bargain in good faith with its clerical,
technical, service, and graduate employees. We also wish to make clear
our opposition to the administration's proposals which provoked the union
to strike in the first place:  unlimited subcontracting of union jobs and
massive cuts in retirement benefits.

As faculty members at universities all over the country, we are keenly
aware that the outcome of the situation at Yale will set the stage for
the future of labor relations on other campuses. We do not share Yale's
vision of the future. All university employees, whether food service
workers
or full professors, deserve to be treated with dignity and
respect, receiving adequate compensation and benefits in exchange for the
work they perform. We urge you to negotiate seriously with the members of
Locals 34 and 35.

===================================Forwarded to design-l by:
Michael Kaplan
Associate Professor of Architecture
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
mkaplan@xxxxxxx