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I agree. As part of a teacher's union, I wasn't a huge fan of the dues but I knew that at some point, I might need their help. Stopping school for weeks on end, however, does not garner public support... and neither does stopping transit in NYC. This is just stupid.

Now, at my graduate school I took part in efforts to unionize the grad assistants, since we had no dental or vision benefits. (Yes, lots of toothless and blind TAs on that campus!) So in cases like that, I do support unions. There was too much political apathy among grad students to get a majority signing cards, but in the end, the threat of getting organized finally pushed the university to give us those benefits. I know we would have had the community behind us, though, which was key.

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