Thousands of Union Protestors Disrupt Yale Graduation
22nd May 2017
Thousands of union activists have swarmed downtown New Haven to force Yale University to negotiate a contract that would bring its recently formed union to the bargaining table.
Led by Yale’s graduate student union Local 33 Unite Here, the crowd is compromised of a mish-mash of local unions, students from up and down the East Coast, and Yale retirees. The protest is occurring directly outside the Ivy’s 316th commencement ceremonies and is set to bleed well into the afternoon. City officials have blocked off four streets (Elm St., College St., High St. and Church St.) and formed a police barricade between graduating students and activists.
These are the four streets that bound the Old Campus, the quadrangle where graduations are held.
At noon, a light drizzle descended upon the crowd.
No doubt God peeing on the whole shebang. What goes around, comes around.