Maia Nehme, Contributing Photographer
Yale students and community members greeted guests at the Graduate New Haven hotel with chants urging them to “boycott the Graduate!” during a Saturday protest against labor abuse.
Unidad Latina en Acción, a New Haven advocacy group for immigrant workers, and student social justice group MEChA de Yale jointly led Saturday’s rally. The protest kicked off ULA and MEChA’s boycott against the Graduate and five New Haven restaurants — Mezcal, Te Amo Tequila, Barracuda, 80 Proof and the McDonald’s on 280 Kimberly Ave. — for alleged discrimination against and exploitation of immigrant workers…