[wheaties]

The sad thing that they will learn which my wife's school learnt was that, as a union employee, you are no longer a student. That is, all the tax breaks, ability to not pay SS, etc. all those fees come right back. In the end, they raised student wages but the take home pay was cut. Then they paid union dues...

[throwawayjava]

This is either hyperbole or an example of the university punishing unionization, because I know of at least a half dozen unionized universities where grad students do get those benefits.