University Daily Kansan. October 26, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 13
School faces $10 million contract case
Strike prompts student suit at Yale
By United Press International
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Angry Yale University students announced yesterday a $10 million breach of contract suit against the Ivy League school for failing to provide educational, custodial and dining hall services during a monthlong strike by white collar workers.
"The strike has been alienating for me and has divided the university," said Marilie Albert, junior, one of 102 students listed as plaintiffs. "The atmosphere is not only depressing and unpleasant but it is not one which is conducive to a healthy academic life."
The class-action lawsuit, filed Wednesday in New Haven Superior
Court, seeks $10 million in damages plus a million for each week the week it is filed.
EDUCATIONAL, CUSTODIAL AND dining hall services have been disrupted by the strike by 1,500 Yale clerical and technical workers charging Yale with economic discrimination by sex and race $ ^{-}$ the vast majority of the union membership being women or minorities.
"I love this university," said Ian Ayres, law student, who helped draft the suit, "but I believe it would be dismal to sit back and let President A. Bartlett Garmanti's administration fail to provide promised services."
The aim of the suit is to convince Yale to move from its refusal to meet the union's demands or submit the
dispute to binding arbitration, said spokesman Tom Keenan, Washington, D.C., graduate student.
"WE HOPE THE threat of $10 million in damages will押产 (Yale) toward a more flexible bargaining position. We figure that if they're concerned about money, this will get them to listen," he said.
"Yale has been in a state of total turmoil over the last four weeks and contrary to repeated pronouncements from the school, he not getting an education," he said.
The suit contends Yale breached its agreement with the students — who pay $14,000 annually in tuition — and "destroyed the atmosphere of collegiality and intellectual inquiry which induced the plaintiffs" to attend the school.
When asked why the students were not suing Local 34 of the Federation of University Employees, Ayres said, "We don't have a contract with the union. We have a contract with the university."
AN AFFILIATE SERVICE and maintenance union has added to campus disruption by honoring picket lines at most of Yale's 200 buildings.
Local 34 offered to submit unresolved issues to faculty arbitration, but Yale immediately rejected the offer.
"The union's proposal is not acceptable to the university," said Michael Finnerty, Yale's vice president for administration.
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