Grad students who want to unionize always claim it’s about pay. Then something like this happens which shows it’s also about politics and power.
Campus Reform reports:
Grad employees get cold feet over ICE
The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), a public sector labor union representing graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...
CBS Boston reported that many seasonal UPS workers experienced shock when they received their paycheck because unions took the majority of the money:
Sheila O’Malley of Charlestown couldn’t believe it when she opened her paycheck from her seasonal job at UPS. “I was shocked,” she told the I-Team. She worked 41 hours...
In Fleck v. Wetsh, review by the Supreme Court was sought of an 8th Circuit decision denying a challenge to North Dakota’s mandatory Bar Association dues, some of which went to political activities not directly related to Bar membership.
Note that this has nothing to do with licensing of attorney, as such....
That was the post I wrote the day after Scott Walker defeated the recall effort against him in 2012:
The tipping point for this is the discontinuation of a policy that paid students to host prospective students.
Campus Reform reports:
Student workers attempt to unionize, claim ‘labor exploitation’
A group of college students announced on August 17 that they will attempt to form a union of “undergraduate workers” in order to push back...
This is where allowing college students to unionize ultimately leads. Who couldn’t see this coming?
The College Fix reports:
Student union occupies UC Berkeley dean’s office for better pay, police ‘demilitarization’
Members of the UC Student-Workers Union, or United Auto Workers Local 2865, gathered at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall yesterday to protest against...
Some schools will eventually regret allowing grad students to unionize. This power will be used.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Brown Agrees to Grad Union Election Terms
Brown University and its would-be graduate student union on Thursday announced their agreement on terms for a possible union election, outside of National Labor Relations Board channels. The...
As Democrats audition for their hoped for role as the new Congressional majority, the flow of progressive ideas just keeps coming. So far, they promise to raise taxes, to manifest from thin air “free” college and “free” healthcare, and to be legislative busybodies who monitor our speech, thoughts, and...
Is this where the unionization of grad student teaching assistants is headed? Union activism as a substitute for real classwork?
Campus Reform reports:
TA asks students to show up at unionization sit-in for class
George Washington University graduate students are seeking to unionize, and at least one Teaching Assistant asked students show up at...
It will be fascinating to see how this new power is used.
From Boston.com:
Harvard graduate students vote to unionize
A group of Harvard University graduate students has voted to join the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, an unlikely union for academics.
The Boston Globe reports that 1,931 graduate students, including...
This is becoming a trend at many schools. What will the schools do when these unions start flexing their muscle and striking?
The Daily Caller reports:
Georgetown Relents, Lets Students Vote On Unionizing
Georgetown University announced Monday that it will allow its graduate students to vote on forming a union, overturning a December refusal.
The...
Will students protest this? After all, the cost will ultimately be passed on to them.
The Daily Caller reports:
Michigan Profs Demand Double Salary, Threaten To Strike
Approximately 1,700 Michigan professors demanded a pay raise Wednesday that would nearly double the starting salary for lecturers and threatened to go on strike for two days.
Eighty...
Teacher unions on the other hand, are all about caring for the children, right? Please.
The College Fix reports:
Teachers union president: Betsy DeVos ‘in her heart doesn’t care about children’
The president...
My post about Cornell students complaining about $5 on-campus coffee prices elicited a strong readership response, Cornell on-campus cafe raises prices after state-mandated minimum wage hike:
Georgetown turned down previous unionization requests by grad students so they’re bringing in the big guns.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Georgetown graduate students to file with National Labor Relations Board in unionization fight
Georgetown University graduate students are doubling down after school officials formally declined to acknowledge the creation of a graduate student union,...
The left won’t be happy until all of academia is unionized.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Georgetown Grad Assistants Seek Union Recognition
Graduate assistants at Georgetown University on Wednesday asked the institution to voluntarily recognize them as a labor union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. In a letter to campus President John DeGioia,...
This is a no brainer for him. Bernie also thinks school should be free – for the students.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Bernie Sanders Lends Support to U. Chicago Grad Students’ Unionization Effort
Sen. Bernie Sanders has lent his support to the unionization efforts of graduate students at the University of Chicago, as...
