Other university labor disputes

GW pro-labor folks should really talk to the grad students up at NYU, who just got screwed. Atrios gets it right:

Certainly there are understandable reasons why administration and faculty would be a nervous about such a thing, though the fact that they often are demonstrates just how "liberal" academia can be sometimes. Nonetheless the arguments in the end boiled down to "how dare our employees expect that we treat them like employees instead of indentured servants!" which is basically what the lofty goal of grad students unions is. Not all faculty treated grad students like that, of course, but there wasn't much of a mechanism in place to prevent it from happening either.

This sounds a lot like the core argument in GW's fight over adjunct faculty.