E. Tammy Kim on how blue-collar campus workers won a majority on New Haven’s city council, and on whether an alliance with grad students would dilute their power.
Elicker, a spindly Yale alum in a midnight-blue suit, proclaimed that New Haven, having survived the pandemic downturn and a sixty-six-million-dollar budget deficit, was “outperforming the state at large and every other major city.” The recovery was real, though the median household still had an income of about forty-nine thousand dollars, and one in four residents lived at or below the federal poverty level.
people were assumed to be hard to organize. Ditto international students. It’s now harder to conjure a typical profile. At the vote count, in the church basement, I noticed a South Asian woman wearing a cut-up T-shirt covered in “Local 33 UNITEHERE!” buttons, in the style of chain mail, that jangled as she moved around the room. Her name was Arita Acharya, and she had taken a leave of absence from her Ph.D. in genetics to work for the union.
were my real desire and curiosity, but it was also my culture hammering into me that this was the only worthy thing to do,” she told me. During the pandemic, she’d canvassed New Haven to try to get people vaccinated, and discovered that organizing was “another thing I might want.” Former organizers told me that Unite Here’s expectations were “psychotic” and that the experience was “exhausting.” They also said that it changed their lives.
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