NLRB: Grad students in private universities lose the right to unionize!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Yes you are. I paid to be tought by a professor, not you.

Wishful thinking. You paid to be taught, full stop.

At any rate, even if you get a professor to teach, it might not be to your advantage because the prof does not necessarily know how to teach. In fact, most of them don't.

[KrazyHorse]

TA job is a special job that is a privilege to have

No it isn't. It's the bread and butter of every grad student. It's drudgework that somebody like a prof isn't going to put up with.

[Ted Striker]

And since it's not really that special of a job, you applied to do it over other jobs because...?

[Ramo]

It pays for rent and groceries.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
And since it's not really that special of a job, you applied to do it over other jobs because...?

...if I worked at another job I'd be deported?

[KrazyHorse]

So is your argument simply against all unions? If the guy sweeping up at a warehouse doesn't find his job special then why'd he apply? Why should him and the other floor-sweepers have a union? If he doesn't want to sweep floors then there are other people who would be willing to.

Do you have a point here, Ted are are you just spewing **** like you seem to be?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Ramo
It pays for rent and groceries.

And again, for the 1000th time, why don't other jobs do this?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Haha, TAing is a joke job if there ever was one. You don't deserve to unionize, you probably don't even deserve your job.

My girlfriend is a TA, and MAN what a joke. She does NOTHING, and gets paid good money for it. You grade papers, MAYBE sit over a discussion group a couple times a month. Give me a break, you're students who got a break by a Prof letting you help them out AND you get paid for it. Its the equivalent of mowing your neighbors lawn. If you want to unionize, go bag groceries.

[KrazyHorse]

Why don't you explain how your argument doesn't work for all unions, Ted?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Wishful thinking. You paid to be taught, full stop.

I know what I paid for and it wasn't substandard instruction by other students.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


...if I worked at another job I'd be deported?

So you couldn't go to a university in your own country? You know the risks going in...you put yourself in the situation...

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


And again, for the 1000th time, why don't other jobs do this?

Because TAs are snobs who don't want to get real jobs, but want real job benefits.

[Ramo]

An intro undergrad class ain't an intro undergrad class unless it's taught by a Chinaman with a poor grasp on English.

[KrazyHorse]

Ted, I'm still waiting for you to answer the point that's been brought up a dozen times:

you've said that grad students shouldn't have a union because if they don't want to do the job for what they're being paid then there are others who will. How does this not apply to every profession?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

KrazyHorse, where are you from?