It's a 'symbolic hunger strike'. When they get hungry, they leave and someone takes their place.
Wait, what?
Posted on 04/28/2017 9:06:43 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
Eight members of the graduate student union Local 33 began an indefinite, collective fast in front of University President Peter Salovey’s home on Tuesday in an effort to persuade Yale to begin collective bargaining.
Local 33 Chair Aaron Greenberg GRD ’18, Co-chair Robin Canavan GRD ’19, Camille Cole GRD ’20, Charles Decker GRD ’18, Lukas Moe GRD ’19, Julia Powers GRD ’19, Emily Sessions GRD ’19 and Jifeng Shen GRD ’18 sat onstage at a rally on Hillhouse Avenue to commence the union’s “Fast Against Slow.”
“What Yale could not stop, they are cynically trying to slow,” Greenberg read from a pamphlet distributed at the rally. “Yale wants to make us wait and wait and wait … until we give up and go away. We have committed ourselves to waiting without eating.”
Earlier this month, Local 33 — a subgroup of the international labor union UNITE HERE — demanded that Yale begin labor negotiations on April 25. On April 21, 41 ballots in the Political Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures departments that were “under challenge” with the National Labor Relations Board were thrown out. The decision brought the number of departments unionized via Local 33 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from six to eight.
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It's a 'symbolic hunger strike'. When they get hungry, they leave and someone takes their place.
Wait, what?
Yep.
They are on a hunger strike between meals.
Morons.
Yeah, who’s catering the event?
For Part II of their Grown Toddler Temper Tantrum protest, I would like to offer the suggestion for them to also hold their breath until they turn blue.
For those idiots participating in this joke they may want to be reminded that they have lost any credibility whatsoever for the rest of their useless lives.
I have always thought that a “hunger strike” was the most stupid of all protests....
Personally, I really don’t care if they don’t eat...
To me, it’s kinda like shooting your self in the foot...
What a great place for a food truck rally!
In the closet Food truck and take out ping
LMAO!
Time to fire up the grill upwind of the protest.
It’s a half ass fast.
Yale admin should just sit down in front of them with fried chicken, potatoes and gravy, cherry pies and just start an eating orgy....
Of course, wait until the “hunger strike” has been going on for at least a day and a half...*ROFL*
We used to call that “Roach-coach Roundup”.
They’re fast(food)ing for peace.
I’ve gone without eating for two weeks.
Wasn’t bad at all. Watched way too many cooking shows though.
I’ll take interest when they haven’t eaten for a month.
I’ll say it again, we need Before and After weigh-in ceremonies for these so very serious displays of heartfelt principles.
Yep.
They are on a hunger strike between meals.
Morons.
An al sharpton style hunger strike.
I’ve got a very simple solution...
Take half of the professor’s pay and give it on a proportional basis to undergraduates performing the professor’s job. Costs Yale nothing, those doing the job of someone else gain compensation equal to what the professor earns, and might even encourage professors to perform their own work.
Of course, they’d balk at such a solution (both the professors and undergraduates) as a) professors would take a huge pay cut, and b) undergraduates wouldn’t get the ‘professional rate’ they ‘deserve.’
Higher education at its finest.
They’re slimming down for their Summer at the beach.
Symbolic?? LOLOLOL! What a bunch of pu$$ies!
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