Fools - absolute fools

From Montana's Bozeman Daily Chronicle:

MSU graduate students vote to unionize
Graduate students at Montana State University have won a historic election to organize an employee union, the first of its kind in the state.

After more than two years of organizing by the Graduate Employee Organization and MEA-MFT, graduate students voted overwhelmingly Monday in favor of forming a union.

One student reported the unofficial tally as 195 to 67. The Montana Department of Labor official in charge of the election was traveling and could not be reached to confirm the figures.

MSU opposed the union, arguing that graduate assistants, who teach and do research for professors, cannot legally form a union to bargain with the university because they are �primarily students and not employees.�

Being a Graduate Student is supposed to be rigorous -- it is never supposed to be easy. When you get your Graduate Degree, this says to the world that I can put in the required work and not shirk. These widdle snowflakes want everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Bleagh... More:

Leslie Taylor, MSU�s counsel, could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Taylor wrote in a brief last fall to the Montana Board of Personnel Appeals contending that its hearing officer had exceeded his authority, acted as an advocate for the students and incorrectly recommended the board rule that graduate assistants are public employees.

Graduate teaching assistants and research assistants are paid stipends, not wages, Taylor wrote. They sign an agreement that explicitly states they aren�t employees, she added. They are, she wrote, �first and foremost students primarily engaged in an education program and in pursuit of a graduate degree.�

Emphasis mine -- seems pretty cut and dried. More (Eric Feaver is the president of the MEA-MFT Union):

Asked whether MEA-MFT would now seek to organize graduate students at the University of Montana, Feaver laughed and said, �You know, there�s a heck of a lot of organizing to be done in this country.�

And the little putz laughs -- he would be out on the street if his union did not keep expanding and growing. They are just another Ponzi scam that has to keep growing to feed the ever growing entitlements it demands for its members. Unions had their day but they are completely out of touch with today's economics. MSU is a state school -- where is the money going to come for the increased health benefits and salary? This will cause MSU to get the money from somewhere else like cutting back on school programs or not hiring as many teachers. Or maybe a tuition increase? Talk about unintended consequences...