Yale

I have not eaten for two weeks. I’m one of eight graduate teachers fasting at Yale in protest of our university’s refusal to negotiate with us since we voted to unionize. When you think of college teachers, there’s probably an image that comes to your mind. Someone with a job for life, summer vacations, sabbaticals every few years. Someone with a roomy office, a flexible schedule and few cares in the world. Unfortunately, this describes little of today’s reality. I knew this going into graduate school, but I went for it anyway, because I wanted to do nothing more than teach English in college the way it was taught to me.