>The Adjunct scam is really, truly atrocious. Adjucts and grad students can unionize now, though, and it only takes one strike in the e. coli labs for a researc

>The Adjunct scam is really, truly atrocious. Adjucts and grad students can unionize now, though, and it only takes one strike in the e. coli labs for a research university to cave... Grad students have been forming unions since the '70s, and it hasn't had any impact. There are so few tenure track positions you can't afford to even slightly irritate the people you need to get one, and everyone views their stint as a TA or an adjunct as temporary.