From the Yale Daily News: Yale postdoctoral researchers opted to unionize in a landslide vote... The University’s postdoctoral associates and research fellows cast votes... to decide whether they would join UNITE HERE Local 33. The union, which represents Yale’s graduate and professional student workers, ratified its first contract with the University in 2023. In [the] vote, 859 postdoctoral researchers voted in favor of joining the union and 31 voted against, according to union spokesperson Ian Dunn. Yale has around 1,200 postdoctoral researchers in total, according to Yale’s Office for Postdoctoral Affairs.
The vote means that Local 33 will represent postdoctoral researchers in negotiations to seek a contract with Yale. A page on the union’s website under the heading “Yale Postdoctoral Scholars United” lists concerns regarding pay, job security and the handling of grievances.
...The vote aligns Yale with some peer universities. In April 2024, the National Labor Relations Board recognized a union including postdoctoral researchers at Harvard, according to the union’s website. Princeton postdoctoral researchers voted to be represented by a union the following month...
Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-postdoctoral-researchers-vote-overwhelmingly-to-unionize.
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