unionization

Interesting idea, its possible though that rather than unionization the issue is a lack of dividends.

(If they want--the school is located in Virginia, which is a right-to-work state.) However, unionization drives do face many difficulties.

The first person to propose unionization often has negative job consequences, despite the laws against employer retaliation.

Particularly in creative fields like tech / IT, unionization fails both of those needs, and promotes stagnation over innovation.

The point about unionization keeping wages up is important, and probably deserves a lot more coverage than it's getting.

With unionization you could afford Lobbiests, and in the end you would be paid what you are worth, with retirement benefits?

And about your original question: unionization screws your economy so there are no jobs left.

The universities argue that unionization would make the nature of their relationship with students adversarial.

You're making the best arguments for unionization I've heard in the tech industry for quite a long time.

It would be interesting to see the unionization rates in the for profit prisons.

In the post-WW2 years, US workers had a monopoly on labor provided to US firms, and thus were able to extract some of their firms' economic surplus (either through unionization or the threat of unionization).

Read this page [1] about the stability NBA players lacked prior to unionization.

They have been able to resist unionization because the National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 in a case involving Brown University that grad students are “primarily students,” not employees.

From as far back as early 2014 there have been a large PR campaign to push for unionization, from trying to demonize companies like Uber or Instacart which pay a minimum amount to the people that make the companies work, to stuff like this which tries to position the world as unaffordable as the "rich" race away with the money.

Not many countries have the equivalent of unemployment insurance for freelancers, and no amount of unionization will help you survive for long in a world without projects." Not sure what country you're speaking about here but in the UK at least you can get unemployment benefits for as long as necessary providing you can show you are actively seeking and able to work (i.e.

Unionization isn’t the best solution for grad students or universities.