The UAW Attacks Harvard

When clerical workers reached a labor agreement with Yale University last winter, the reverberations were felt throughout the country. After a 10-week strike, the 2,500 workers, most of them women, had won substantial wage and benefit improvements. At a time when the labor movement is on the defensive, this alone was enough to make front-page news. But the real significance of Yale lay in what it may portend for labor’s future. If the labor movement is to survive, it must reach out to w...