Follow The Money
From Jamie Kirchick's column today:
And GESO's "strike" next week will not be a real strike, because, after all, GESO is not a real union. For unlike actual workers, GESO members do not pay union dues. Who then, is funding the color posters plastered around campus and the full-page ads? When I asked Reynolds, she said UNITE-HERE, the umbrella union for locals 34 and 35. From 1998 to 2000, HERE contributed a total of $393,395 to GESO. This means that the real workers of Yale University -- the dining hall workers, the janitors, the administrative assistants and their working-class colleagues across the country -- are subsidizing everything related to GESO via union dues.Assuming this is true, it's a shocking indictment, no?
posted by Finnegan @ 1:47 PM
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I take it you mean to suggest something vaguely conspiratorial, i.e., GESO is hoodwinking Yale's "real" workers, or, as Kirchick argues, UNITE-HERE is using GESO as a pawn to further its own interests. But why must it be the case (as it always is for critics of GESO) that some elite is manipulating a less powerful group? Couldn't it quite easily be the opposite: that GESO and Yale's workers have agreed that they share common visions and common needs? If you're so assured of injustice, why aren't you doing a damn thing about it?
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