Graduate students at several US universities and colleges are trying to form unions, with mixed success. According to the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions, students already have collective-bargaining rights at more than 20 US schools (see Nature 428,965; 2004). But is unionizing a good idea? Certainly, teaching and research assistants deserve a say in their pay, work benefits and conditions. But should students engage in collective bargaining and risk potentially unproductive clashes with administrators?
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