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5,000 food service, janitorial, clerical, technical, health-care, and graduate student workers began a five-day strike at Yale University yesterday, picketing with students, community and religious leaders despite heavy wind chills and below freezing temperatures. Among the issues behind this seventh strike in thirty-five years are the university administration's decade-long refusal to negotiate with graduate student employees, and negotiations with health-care workers that have dragged on two years after their old contract expired. Other major issues are a contract proposal to members of the two largest unions which---despite administration claims that no final offer has been made---has not changed since it was offered a year ago, and the feeling expressed by Reverend Jesse Jackson at a rally last night that "Yale is too rich for the workers to be so poor."