Find a parking place. We welcome donations to support the conference. Housing Possibilities for April 16-18 conference at Yale University New Haven. Bring a sleeping bag. You will be staying with a Yale student or worker, possibly sleeping on the floor.
New Haven is heir to a rich tradition of progressive labor organizing.
At the same time, it is a city reeling from downsizing and deindustrialization. With a destroyed manufacturing base, the city has come to rely on universities and hospitals as sources of employment. For two decades Yale's HERE locals have drawn national attention to a community-based organizing that has ranged from the 1984 clerical workers' strike for recognition to the successful campaign for a Living Wage ordinance. In 1999, eight thousand workers at Yale-New Haven and 2,500 graduate student teaching assistants at Yale are joining forces in what promises to be an important labor struggle. First, the role of the university in the new labor movement.