May Day, May Day

In honor of May Day, this article from the The Nation about graduate student unionization.

This is the supplement to the entry on Los Alamos, where other "disgruntled" workers took to blogs in order to take some measure of power back from management.

It is indeed the truth that the graduate assistant is now the low-paid laborer of choice for administrations (read management) who are taking away full faculty lines from departments even while student enrollments across the country are generally going up, not down.