Flex Dollars are popular only because Yale provides terrible dining hall service. With Flex Dollars, Yale is paying off students to blame this poor service unfairly on workers, not administrators. And Yale students are swallowing the bribe whole. Hypocrite that I am, I have already spent 92 Flex Dollars on late-night food. Because of Yale's idiotic eating schedule, the dining halls close seven hours before most students go to sleep.
Money is money.
Indeed, the flex controversy is a sad contradiction of self interests. The result is mutual suspicion between students and union members. Yale officials have concocted a conflict where the financial needs of two very different groups of people contradict. All these factors make the anti-union behavior by undergraduate leaders embarrassing. It's almost comical to watch the YCC pack Dakota J's to support a temporary plan Yale created only to avoid paying union wages.