Bargaining Update
We have urged Yale to return to a mode of problem-solving and have launched our contract negotiations by giving the University a full job security proposal. Coming off our 5/5 Job Security Rally, the University acknowledged they will provide…
With contract negotiations looming, nearly 2,000 Yale workers hold mass demonstration calling on Yale to protect their jobs
Service, maintenance, clerical, and technical workers at Yale University call for an end to budget cuts and threats to their job securityAmidst widespread threats of layoffs, nearly 2,000 workers at Yale University took to the street…
986 update
For over two years, we have been pushing the University to protect our 986 clinical jobs from Yale-New Haven Hospital. The moment we were anticipating arrived last week when Yale began claiming the need for potential staff cuts in…
UNITE HERE Applauds Two-Year Delay on ACA Excise Tax
Our union has been very concerned about a part of the Affordable Care Act, a 40% excise tax, popularly known as the "Cadillac Tax." This tax would have impacted our members in the Aetna Plans if it was enacted. Fortunately, for nearly…
Account Assistants in Pediatrics Continue to Fight to Protect our Jobs!
The Staff of Yale Pediatric Billing
Last August, we talked about the threat that Pediatric Billing was facing. They had just been told their work would be subcontracted to an outside medical billing company. Members were furious,…
Members Leaflet Campus for Job Security
While you were walking into work or headed to lunch this week, you may have seen us passing out leaflets across central campus. Three shifts a day, all week…
Coming up next week . . .
Join us on March 9th for one of our quarterly Membership Meetings! We will meet at 5:00pm at United Church on the Green. Immediately following the meeting please join us at the Founding Convention of UNITE HERE Local 33! Our…
We delivered our petition with over 2,500 signatures!
Yesterday at noon, Local 34 leaders delivered our petition on job security and union growth to Medical School Dean Robert Alpern . . .
and to Provost Ben Polak . . .
and to President Peter Salovey at Woodbridge Hall .…
LOCAL 34 UNITE HERE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE VOTES TO PRIORITIZE PROTECTING 986 CLINICAL JOBS FROM YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL THREAT
The Organizing Committee of Local 34 UNITE HERE voted on December 9 to prioritize securing the 986 clinical jobs held by union members in the medical area. As the non-union Yale-New Haven Hospital continues to expand, clinical jobs…