Unions

In a recent deicsion, the national labor board ruled that private university graduate students do not have the right to unionize.

What? Why do not all employees have the right to unionize? Graduate students (who work) are workers, not only students as the labor labor board as asserted. Already with recent decisions from the current administration, the US is feeling a brain drain. Example: limits on stem cell research has shifted a lot of research to Europe and Japan.

So at a time when undergraduate admissions are at a record level-- when graduate students are needed most to teach classes, are private universities with individual endowments of billions of dollars preventing graduate students from organizing.

In a society that cherishes Fear Factor and Fox News, isn't it the least our government can do to ensure graduate students--the academic elite of the nation--are allowed their consitutional right to organize? No, instead, let's turn on another episode of American idol and allow our nations' collection brain power to sit fallow while the Chinese go to the moon, Russians cure cancer, and South America learns english.