Articles on Unionization

Union? No Thanks Union No Thanks_Chronicle.pdf

        This article seems to mirror the situation at WSU

The National Landscape of Unionization

• Union Rules, this article lays the union agenda in Washington D.C. and how these factions are working to eliminate democratic votes and reliance upon signature card campaigns. 
• Unions Forge Secret Pacts with Employers Unions_Forge_Secret_Pacts_With_Major_Employers_-_WSJ.com[1].pdf - a Wall Street Journal Online Article.

Effects of Unionization

• Timeline of UAW conflict in UCSB grad student union, United Student Labor at UCSB. Visit site for more information on their efforts to bargain without the UAW.

Graduate Voices Against Unionization

• Is GESO afraid of an open, candid debate?, Opinion, Yale Daily News, March 1, 2002. A student's frustration at morally questionable unionization efforts at Yale.
• Grad Students Don't Have Anything to Whine About. Opinion, Yale Daily News, April 24, 2002. A student explains we he is personally opposed to graduate student unionization, despite his personal circumstances.

Graduate Student Unions, The Law, and Economics

• What does Economics tell us about Unionization? An economic argument against grad student unions by a Columbia Econonomics Ph.D. student.

The UAW

• UAW's New Target: Academia, Associated Press, July 2, 2001.
• House Allows Drilling in Alaska, Defeats SUV Rules with the help of UAW lobbyers,USA Today, August 2, 2001.
• http://www.unionfacts.com/unions/unionProfile.cfm?id=149 Here is some of the financial facts concerning the UAW.

Other Materials

• A Combined RA-TA Union: The Wrong Way to Unionize. An evaluation of the problems with a combined RA-TA union, with references.
• The Nature and Scope of Union Revenues from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. An article about how much money unions bring in and laws relating to "right-to-work", financial disclosure, Beck rights, and other protections of workers against union forces. Many references.
• National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. "A non-profit organization providing free legal aid nationwide to thousands of employees whose human and civil rights have been violated by compulsary unionism abuses."
• The National Legal and Policy Center's Organized Labor Accountability Project. See especially, "Union Corruption Update" and "Fighting Corruption in the AFL-CIO." (The UAW is part of the AFL-CIO.)

Other Areas to Look for Information

• The University of Washington has a similar union to the one being proposed here at WSU.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education also has a wealth of information on how the United Auto Workers are infiltrating academe.
• http://www.nlrb.gov/  The National Labor Relations Board also a wealth of informationn regarding unionization in Academia.
• http://www.geocities.com/brown_atwhatcost/ Brown University, visit their At What Cost? website for information on the unionization effort on their campus.