Although two university unions reached a settlement last week and returned to work, dietary workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital, returned to work without a contract. Jerry Brown, New England president of the health care workers' union, said that they would continue to push for better wages, pensions and health benefits. Union leaders also say the majority of Yale-New Haven Hospital's 1,800 clerical, housekeeping and custodial workers and nurses' aides have been intimidated by management into not unionizing.
See "Despite an End to Yale Strike, Hospital Workers' Issues Linger", Stacey Stowe, The New York Times, September 22, 2003