> And the reason all grad organizing has been at state schools up until
> recently was because the NLRB was preceived to be hostile to such
> organizing; since the NLRB decision in favor of TAs at NYU, you have seen an
> upsurge of grad unions seeking recognition at Brown and Temple most
> recently.
This is mostly because public schools have been hardest hit by loss of public finance/downsizing, though. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that labor law doesn't matter, because it sure does, but at a point in history where the US union movement has no party it can call its own, and when the welfare state has been chopped to shreds, the emphasis has to be on (1) having an actual one-on-one organizing strategy, (2) tying labor issues to broader issues in the henceforth global community, across all sorts of national and international boundaries, and (3) applying new, creative forms of information socialism in the workplace, in order to someday have the capacity to build a pro-labor party. There's even a historical precedent for this, in the case of post-war Europe and Japan; labor unions expanded by leaps and bounds to all-time highs, pushing the political agenda to the Left for decades to come.
-- Dennis