Yale graduate students vote to form labor union

Yale graduate and professional school students have voted to form a labor union, President Peter Salovey said Monday after an official count by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). “With today’s result, the university will now turn to bargaining in good faith with Local 33 to reach a contract,” he said in a message to the campus community. In October, the labor union UNITE HERE Local 33 petitioned the NLRB for an election, seeking to represent graduate and professional school students at Yale. The university honored the request and worked with Local 33 representatives on the terms of the election, which was held on campus Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and included an option for mail-in ballots for eligible voters unable to participate in person. The NLRB counted the votes today and certified the results. A total of 2,039 votes were counted of 3,214 graduate and professional school students eligible to vote; 1,860 voted in favor of unionization, 179 voted against. “Throughout the fall semester, we have consistently affirmed a few key facts and principles: that the leaders of the university care about the well-being of all our students, that a democratic election in which all eligible students have the
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