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More than 1,000 Yale graduate assistants have signed a petition stating that Yale University should allow student employees the right to vote for and possibly form unions. The petition and protests involving hundreds of students come closely after two other nearby universities? graduate assistants formed unions. The graduate students at one of the schools, the University of Connecticut, formed a union in only a matter of weeks after beginning a drive to organize, in part because the school was pressured by State officials to hold a vote quickly. Yale?s longstanding position on the matter is that the university will continue to work with its professors, tenured and non-tenured, and students to resolve issues without a union, and that the university is taking the issues outlined in the petition very seriously.