Too bad they can't vote to get ancient tenured professors to retire already and free up some space for new blood.

The ghost of Cesar Cauce continues to haunt his sister as she strives to hamstring any attempts at unionization of workers on campus.

This makes Cauce 0-for-2 against PERC recognition in just the past few weeks: first KUOW staffers, now postdocs. And we all know how much UW alums HATE losing teams...

While I fully support their right to unionize (and workers anywhere, really. the right to unionize should be as legitimate as the right to form an LLC), I kind of suspect this might do them more harm than good. Unions work in traditional industry because the workers generate excess profit. Grad students and postdocs, however, don't. They need the university accrediting much more than the universities need them.

@4:

What the HELL are you on? Currently public sector workers (you know, the people who work for the government, which, last I checked wasn't a "traditional industry (where) the workers generate excess profit") has the highest union density of any employment category.