for those of you who don’t keep up with union news: this year has been crazy for university strikes and unionization like this. there have been at least 6 university faculty strikes that i can think of (at one point the faculty of three Illinois universities alone were on strike at the same time), and probably the same number of student worker strikes in that timeframe. graduate and student unions are also booming. at least a dozen of those in the past year have formed, usually with comical numbers like 97% in favor with 2,000 voters.
for those of you who don’t keep up with union news: this year has been crazy for university strikes and unionization like this. there have been at least 6 university faculty strikes that i can think of (at one point the faculty of three Illinois universities alone were on strike at the same time), and probably the same number of student worker strikes in that timeframe. graduate and student unions are also booming. at least a dozen of those in the past year have formed, usually with comical numbers like 97% in favor with 2,000 voters.