Yes, that or the opposite extreme: very skilled artisans who create guilds to exert monopolistic control over an industry.
Anything in between, whether skilled labor or highly fungible work, doesn't lend itself to unions. Certainly not internships or academic work that's guaranteed as long as you meet the requirements. It's only happening because the school entertains their whining. May the best commies win.
Graduate students are in effect apprentice academics. Their paid teaching and research jobs are part of this apprenticeship. PhD students typically receive cash fellowships in addition to teaching/research appointments to pay for their study.
The greedy and slothful are bitching about their privileged positions.
"Columbia University, another Ivy League school, in 2018 agreed to begin contract negotiations with a union representing its graduate student teaching and research assistants, ending a long battle in which the university denied them the right to unionize."
https://news.columbia.edu/news/student-union-ratifies-first-contract-university Looks like Columbia U has already caved
Yes, that or the opposite extreme: very skilled artisans who create guilds to exert monopolistic control over an industry.
Anything in between, whether skilled labor or highly fungible work, doesn't lend itself to unions. Certainly not internships or academic work that's guaranteed as long as you meet the requirements. It's only happening because the school entertains their whining. May the best commies win.
This again?
Graduate students are in effect apprentice academics. Their paid teaching and research jobs are part of this apprenticeship. PhD students typically receive cash fellowships in addition to teaching/research appointments to pay for their study.
The greedy and slothful are bitching about their privileged positions.
"Columbia University, another Ivy League school, in 2018 agreed to begin contract negotiations with a union representing its graduate student teaching and research assistants, ending a long battle in which the university denied them the right to unionize." https://news.columbia.edu/news/student-union-ratifies-first-contract-university Looks like Columbia U has already caved
May they become the most efficient union. Even more so than the UAW.
This would make a great og Muppets sketch, with Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his grad student assistant, Beaker.