Yale Grad Students Start a Union. Next, They Must Win Bargaining Rights.

On Wednesday evening, something happened that generations of graduate students at Yale University had awaited for nearly two decades: The founding of a union. With about 1,500 members present, amidst New Haven's other unions and with the support of a who's who of Connecticut public officials, the international president of UNITE-HERE arrived to certify their majority support and grant them a charter.