A hunger strike means that you don’t eat until your conditions are met, correct? Yeah, not according to some special snowflakes at Yale University who couldn’t even get that right.
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As per usual with leftists, they virtue signal and then refuse to back it up. In this case, Yale students embarked on a “hunger strike,” in which strikers were permitted to go and eat. So not a hunger strike at all.
The hunger strike that wasn’t. Members of a Yale graduate student union decided to stage a hunger strike outside of the university president’s home, apparently in an effort to force the school’s hand to begin collective bargaining, according to The Daily Wire.
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The problem? Stupidity — expensive, Ivy League stupidity.
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Background. From the Yale Daily News:
Earlier this month, Local 33 — a subgroup of the international labor union UNITE HERE — demanded that Yale begin labor negotiations on April 25. On April 21, 41 ballots in the Political Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures departments that were “under challenge” with the National Labor Relations Board were thrown out. The decision brought the number of departments unionized via Local 33 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from six to eight […]
In a statement to the News, University spokesman Tom Conroy described Local 33’s bargaining request as premature and said the hunger strike was “unwarranted by the circumstances.”
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“The University cannot compel anyone to refrain from this activity, but strongly urges that students not put their health at risk or encourage others to do so,” Conroy said.
Conroy told The Daily Caller News Foundation: “Yesterday on Beinecke Plaza, without seeking the required approval to hold a demonstration there, Local 33 erected a large tent-like structure as part of what it said would be an ongoing, indefinite protest.”
“Structures are not permitted in that space,” he continued, “and the individuals who were demonstrating were notified today that it is in violation of University policy, jeopardizes the safety of the demonstrators and others, and needs to be removed.”
The DCNF reported: “The spokesman also told The DCNF that Yale provides doctoral students stipends of at least $30,000 and covers their entire health insurance, which totals almost $375,000 per student for six years.”
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What this means. If you needed any further proof — and I’m sure you didn’t — that higher education in this country is by and large a big, fat joke, well here you go …
