Editing Yale University (section)

===Staff and labor unions===
{{See also|Federation of Hospital and University Employees}}
Yale University staff are represented by several different unions. Clerical and technical workers are represented by Local 34, and service and maintenance workers are represented by Local 35, both of the same union affiliate [[UNITE HERE]].<ref name="It's Your Yale">{{Cite web|title=Labor Unions at Yale University|website=It's Your Yale|url=https://your.yale.edu/work-yale/staff-resources/union-management-relations/labor-unions-yale-university|access-date=March 7, 2021|publisher=Yale University}}</ref> Unlike similar institutions, Yale has consistently refused to recognize its graduate student union, Local 33 (another affiliate of UNITE HERE), citing claims that the union's elections were undemocratic and how graduate students are not employees;<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Arvanitis|first1=Lorenzo|last2=Cho|first2=Serena|date=November 26, 2018|title=Breaking with peers, Yale reaffirms opposition to Local 33|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/11/26/breaking-with-peers-yale-reaffirms-opposition-to-local-33/|access-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Noguchi|first=Yuki|date=June 16, 2017|title=At Yale, Protests Mark A Fight To Recognize Union For Grad Students|work=[[NPR]]|publisher=National Public Radio, Inc|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/06/16/532774267/at-yale-protests-mark-a-fight-to-recognize-union-for-grad-students|access-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> the move to not recognize the union has been criticized by the [[American Federation of Teachers]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 23, 2017|title=Union Leaders on Failure of Yale University to Negotiate with its Graduate Employees|url=https://aftct.org/story/union-leaders-failure-yale-university-negotiate-its-graduate-employees-0|access-date=March 7, 2021|website=aftct.org|publisher=AFT Connecticut, AFL-CIO|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411211738/https://aftct.org/story/union-leaders-failure-yale-university-negotiate-its-graduate-employees-0|url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, officers of the Yale University Police Department are represented by the Yale Police Benevolent Association, which affiliated in 2005 with the Connecticut Organization for Public Safety Employees.<ref name="It's Your Yale" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Kahn|first=Sam|date=April 1, 2005|title=Yale Police union to join COPS|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/04/01/yale-police-union-to-join-cops/|url-status=live|access-date=March 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921233458/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2005/apr/01/yale-police-union-to-join-cops/|archive-date=September 21, 2012}}</ref> Yale security officers joined the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America in late 2010,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rosenfeld|first=Everett|date=October 14, 2010|title=Yale Security votes to unionize Thursday|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/oct/14/yale-security-votes-to-unionize-thursday/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101016042913/http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/oct/14/yale-security-votes-to-unionize-thursday/|archive-date=October 16, 2010}}</ref> even though the Yale administration contested the election.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rosenfeld|first=Everett|date=October 15, 2010|title=Union vote contested by Yale|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2010/10/15/union-vote-contested-by-yale/|access-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> In October 2014, after deliberation,<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Lloyd-Thomas|first1=Matthew|last2=Ramilo|first2=Marek|date=September 25, 2014|title=Yale Security considers union switch|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/25/yale-security-considers-union-switch/|access-date=March 7, 2021}}</ref> Yale security decided to form a new union, the Yale University Security Officers Association, which has since represented the campus security officers.<ref name="It's Your Yale" /><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Bruley|first1=Sarah|last2=Siegel|first2=Rachel|date=December 2, 2014|title=Three firings in Yale Security put labor relations in focus|work=[[Yale Daily News]]|publisher=Yale Daily News Publishing Company|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/12/02/firings-shed-doubt-on-univ-s-treatment-of-security-union/|access-date=December 2, 2014}}</ref>

Yale has a history of difficult and prolonged labor negotiations, often culminating in strikes.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gilpin|first1=Toni|title=On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers' Strike at Yale University, 1984–85|last2=Issac|first2=Gary|last3=Letwin|first3=Dan|last4=McKivigan|first4=Jack|publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]]|year=1994|isbn=978-0-252-06454-8|location=[[Champaign, Illinois|Champaign]]}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=March 2021|reason=Bold claim, a page number would be appreciated.}} There have been at least eight strikes since 1968, and ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote that Yale has a reputation as having the worst record of labor tension of any university in the U.S.<ref>{{cite news|last=Greenhouse|first=Steven|date=March 4, 2003|title=Yale's Labor Troubles Deepen as Thousands Go on Strike|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/nyregion/yale-s-labor-troubles-deepen-as-thousands-go-on-strike.html|access-date=March 7, 2021|issn=1553-8095}}</ref> Moreover, Yale has been accused by the [[AFL–CIO]] of failing to treat workers with respect,<ref>{{cite web|date=March 6, 2003|title=Solidarity Strong as Yale Strike Ends|url=http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/ns03062003.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706074858/http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/ns03062003.cfm|archive-date=July 6, 2011|access-date=December 4, 2011|website=aflcio.org|publisher=[[AFL–CIO]]}}</ref> as well as not renewing contracts with professors over involvement in campus labor issues.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Arenson|first=Karen W.|date=December 28, 2005|title=When Scholarship and Politics Collided at Yale|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/28/nyregion/when-scholarship-and-politics-collided-at-yale.html|access-date=March 7, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Yale has responded to strikes with claims over mediocre union participation and the benefits of their contracts.<ref>{{cite web|date=September 12, 2003|title=Office of Public Affairs at Yale – News Release|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/03-09-12-02.all.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514091308/http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/03-09-12-02.all.html|archive-date=May 14, 2008|access-date=December 4, 2011|website=yale.edu|publisher=Yale University}}</ref>