UAW
greengabbro | February 14, 2008I'm a proud member of the United Auto Workers.
The entertainment value of people's broken socioeconomic assumptions when I say this is not to be underestimated, but I don't feel that I'm personally much better off with the UAW than without. The sciences as a whole are much better funded than, say, comparative literature. Graduate students in the earth sciences typically have the option to get a "real" job without leaving the field, which makes school almost like part of a competitive labor market - even without collective bargaining I would probably still be paid okay. I don't have…