Unionization across all academia, not by institution?: Vox article

[pigou]

A related question is whether unionizing the part-timers will result in overall better treatment for a more stable part-time population who get some professional development support or whether making part-timers more expensive will essentially kill part-time positions in certain fields where armies of poorly paid part-timers exist, especially as the number of students entering college with their gen eds completed increase?

Yes to both. This is uniformly true across every unionized industry: it's good for anyone with a union job, bad for anyone who now does not have a job that they otherwise would have had, and it drives up costs for customers.

The premise that it's a good thing for everyone in the industry is purely paternalistic: it's removing the agency of potential employees and telling them they would have been stupid/wrong to take the position at the offered wage and that it's in their own interest for them not to be allowed to take the position. Alas, that kind of paternalism is incredibly pervasive -- see also every article about Uber wages, even as the evidence is clear that wages are too high, not too low. (Drivers have wait times between customers during much of the day. The most obvious sign of supply exceeding demand.)

[mahagonny]

A related question is whether unionizing the part-timers will result in overall better treatment for a more stable part-time population who get some professional development support or whether making part-timers more expensive will essentially kill part-time positions in certain fields where armies of poorly paid part-timers exist, especially as the number of students entering college with their gen eds completed increase?

Yes to both. This is uniformly true across every unionized industry: it's good for anyone with a union job, bad for anyone who now does not have a job that they otherwise would have had, and it drives up costs for customers.[/b]

You wouldn't by any chance be beating the bushes for someone in the academic world who is both (1) deeply concerned about the rising cost of higher education, and (2) regrets the degree to which they have been responsible?