The cuts would cause undergraduate workers to flee the residential college kitchens for other, cushier jobs, leaving managers with important positions to fill. Yale should evaluate all dining hall wages in its effort to improve the quality of the University's dining services. The University would be acting in a blatantly unfair and cowardly way if it chose to pander to the unions while cutting student paychecks.
Undergraduates work in the dining halls to earn lucrative paychecks.
They are not drawn to the job because of great long-term prospects or healthy backbreaking labor. Currently, dining hall jobs offer undergraduates, particularly those on financial aid, the chance to earn good money through hard work. The plan under consideration will take away this important option. Yale officials and Union leaders need to sit down and work out a more equitable plan before touching students' salaries. Return to today's paper.