GESO announces majority support among teachers in the humanities and social sciences and among students enrolled in those departments, and a strike vote on April 13:

Despite the threat, university officials said they would not reverse their long-standing policy against union recognition. If, as organizers expect, the strike is approved April 13, graduate students would not teach classes for five days beginning April 18. Organizers believe graduate students need a union to help them negotiate for better wages and health care...Reynolds said students are not considering a grade strike, in which undergraduate grades would be withheld. Such an effort failed in 1995 failed after Yale told students they would be ineligible to teach the following spring if the strike continued.