Frankie Cordeira Jr.

Description: Yale College Republicans Hold BBQ Near Hunger Strike To Taunt Protesters Credit: Mic/Facebook Last week campus union organizers at Yale University gathered in a tent outside University President Peter Saloveys home. The eight-member group was participating in a hunger strike regarding Yales unwillingness to negotiate a contract with its graduate teachers. The graduate students voted to unionize in February after three years of trying to get the union to sit down and negotiate a contract with its student workers failed to produce results. The demands? Adequate health care coverage equal pay a safer working environment for women and increased diversity initiatives. By Friday it had been three days since the group had eaten. Conspicuously college students with the Yale RepublicanChapter decided to host a BBQ in close proximity to the hunger strike. Before a Facebook event describing the BBQ was deleted organizers wrote: Itll taste (and smell) delicious! The college group cooked up a meal of beef baked beans and corn on the cob for community members. As Mic reports the tactic has drawn comparisons to another recent barbecue which occurred halfway across the world. In that instance an Israeli youth group held a barbecue outside a prison in which Palestinians were engaging in a hunger strike. #Israeli rightwingers cook barbecue outside prison where #Palestinians are on hunger strike saying the smell will increase their suffering http://pic.twitter.com/j39ITs7PA8 Joe (@joedyke) April 20 2017 The union is known as Local 33 and is a subgroup of the international labor union UNITE HERE. According to Breitbart the universitys refusal is being appealed to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Some claim that the university is holding out until Donald Trump appoints a new batch of anti-union members to the NLRB. Commented Charles Decker one of the fasting grad students: The irony isnt lost on me that a bunch of guys were having a party wearing Trump shirts just 50 feet away from from the administration thats waiting for the Trump administration to bail them out. The activists continue to fast and are very serious about the cause despite Conservative medias claims that the hunger strike is symbolic only. This distorted perception comes from the fact that the group has standby fasters available in case the participating fasters experience a medical emergency. The original group continues to go without food. Yale College Republicans barbecuing by union fast site http://pic.twitter.com/qf687cckxB gabrielwinant (@gabrielwinant) April 28 2017 There are no breaks and we dont eat when were hungry Decker said. Were going to keep going until the administration comes to continue or we cant continue for medical reasons. I assure you were very hungry he added. What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news! True Activist / Report a typo
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