(Opinion) Did you notice how little people noticed when New Haven made labor history this week?
After 31 years of high-profile marches, street shutdowns, politician rallies, and face-offs with the university, organizers succeeded in winning an election to unionize Yale’s graduate-student employees … by a 10 – 1 margin. Yet the election took place in near silence, and nobody called much attention to the results. Might there be more to the story? Could that near silence on both sides be part of the story?
Did you notice how different it looked, when a video store became New Haven’s first marijuana store this week, from how recreational legalization was supposed to follow a Drug War-reparational “social equity” script?
How those stories will end, as well as the story of whether New Haven’s boom will benefit New Haveners in part by linking young people to new jobs, is the focus of the latest edition of the weekly opinionated New Haven Independent v‑log news summary, direct from our newsroom assignment desk — er, compost heap. Click on the above video to watch.
Love this format and the work at the Indy. Keep it up Paul and team 🙏