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We are now in day 4 of the teacher strike in Chicago, which pits the Chicago Teachers Union against education reformers led by President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It’s a decisive, complicated battle, made...
As a follow-up to my last post, and the comments thread thereon, I thought it would be useful to provide a kind of summary of the various arguments that otherwise-leftwing-academics come up to in order to argue against graduate student...
Via a reader, this story about a grad student organization effort in Michigan, and a possible retaliation against a student, Jennifer Dibbern, who has lost her position as a researcher at the university. The university provost’s account, claiming that Dibbern...
Recent data released by the U.S. Census Bureau confirms something that many of us have long suspected but, until recently, lacked the hard data to back up those suspicions. Strong unions increase household incomes for middle class union and non-union...
Ramesh Ponnuru argues that the relevant social science suggests that US policy makers should not try to reverse the decline of unions. Underlying this dispute … is a fundamental difference in perspective about the decline of unions. Liberals fear it...