Editing Local 33–UNITE HERE (section)

==History==

In 2014, Local 33 took its campaign public at a rally on October 21, unveiling a petition with the photographs of over 1000 graduate students calling on Yale to negotiate the terms of a neutral election.<ref name="newhavenindependent.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/inspired_by_nyu_geso_reemerges_in_force/|title=Inspired By NYU, GESO Reemerges In Force &#124; New Haven Independent|date=October 22, 2014|website=www.newhavenindependent.org|access-date=May 14, 2015|archive-date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518100245/http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/inspired_by_nyu_geso_reemerges_in_force/|url-status=live}}</ref> Local 33 is asking Yale to address four main issues: fairness in teaching and funding; mental healthcare for graduate students; racial and gender equity; and affordable childcare.<ref name="thenation.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/could-yale-graduate-students-be-next-unionize/|title=Could Yale Graduate Students Be the Next to Unionize?|first=Michelle|last=Chen|date=May 6, 2015|via=www.thenation.com|access-date=September 7, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028092826/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/could-yale-graduate-students-be-next-unionize/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On August 29, 2016, following the NLRB's decision in ''Columbia'', Local 33 members in 10 academic departments filed election petitions with the NLRB.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/30/yale-graduate-students-look-to-unionize-after-nlrb-ruling/|title=Yale graduate students look to unionize after labor board ruling|first=Danielle|last=Douglas-Gabriel|via=www.washingtonpost.com|access-date=2016-09-15|archive-date=2016-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919170645/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/08/30/yale-graduate-students-look-to-unionize-after-nlrb-ruling/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On January 25, 2017, the Regional Director for Region 1 of the National Labor Relations Board ordered union elections for graduate teachers in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Geology and Geophysics, History, History of Art, Math, Physics, Political Science, and Sociology.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20170125/yale-university-graduate-students-in-9-departments-given-right-to-hold-union-elections/ |title=Yale University graduate students in 9 departments given right to hold union elections |access-date=2017-02-03 |archive-date=2017-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126020259/http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20170125/yale-university-graduate-students-in-9-departments-given-right-to-hold-union-elections |url-status=live }}</ref>