LOL??? Yale Hunger Strike

[ghuns]

Unionized grad students? I don't think they quite understand the concept of a labor union or a trade union as they neither labor, nor have a trade.

I thought their labor was to do stuff the actual professors don't want to do, which is pretty much everything.

 

[Dino Bravo]

These are the folks that will run the country someday....

 

[hoosierdoc]

Unionized grad students? I don't think they quite understand the concept of a labor union or a trade union as they neither labor, nor have a trade.

I bet they help teach in exchange for their free tuition

 

[Spear Dane]

Wow, talk about spoilt children. 30 grand in money, 40 grand in free tuition and free health care and they are upset? And they leave to get food? SMH. I thought we raised tougher snowflakes than this.

 

[HoughMade]

I bet they help teach in exchange for their free tuition

...and in exchange for the stipend and free healthcare.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

To be really effective, I think a hunger strike has to involve making the people you are protesting against go hungry. If you tell me you are going on a hunger strike because you don't like something I'm (allegedly) doing to you or not doing for you, my reaction is going to be, "Yeah? Have fun with that." Now if you are somehow able to withhold food from me, then you might get my attention.

It's not like a labor strike where not working means a hardship on your employer. Your self-imposed hardship has absolutely no bearing on me.

 

[jbombelli]

Graduate Student Union Local 33??

 

[Route 45]

Graduate Student Union Local 33??

Ah ha ha ha ha!!!!!! That is awesome!

 

[actaeon277]

I don't even know where to start with this.

 

[jamil]

True hard-asses.

You got that half right.

True hard?

 

[oldpink]

Just consider that this is about as macho as lefties ever get.

 

[DRob]

Who's catering this strike? The hors d'oeuvres haven't been delivered yet!

 

[bobzilla]

To be really effective, I think a hunger strike has to involve making the people you are protesting against go hungry. If you tell me you are going on a hunger strike because you don't like something I'm (allegedly) doing to you or not doing for you, my reaction is going to be, "Yeah? Have fun with that." Now if you are somehow able to withhold food from me, then you might get my attention.

It's not like a labor strike where not working means a hardship on your employer. Your self-imposed hardship has absolutely no bearing on me.

Thats the fastest way to end up with a plastic spiel in your face in my house. You want to strike go for it. Stop my food flow and you're going down in the most painful way I can envision.

 

[funeralweb]

If they'll halt a hunger strike to take a food break, I wonder what a as-yet-undelivered curb-stomping would do to their more violent forms of protesting....

 

[Route 45]

 

[actaeon277]

But, does it really matter if they have a BBQ, when the "protestors" aren't even "fasting"?

 

[femurphy77]

O.k. I'm lost here; they have their $40k tuition paid in full. Full medical. AND a $30k stipend.

And they're complaining????

 

[jzwhts]

Bury them next to Bobby Sands!!! Oh, then build a monument.

 

[actaeon277]

O.k. I'm lost here; they have their $40k tuition paid in full. Full medical. AND a $30k stipend.

And they're complaining????

I've seen men making approx. $100,000 per year complaining they weren't getting a free sandwich.

 

[Lex Concord]

These are the folks that will ruin the country someday....

FIFY...

though, as is probably normal, they're too late to actually do the job