Resources and useful bits of information
Check out American Federation of Teachers' Higher Education Department.
Read AFL-CIO's commitment to making higher education affordable.
Check out worldwide university rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UMCP ranks 37th, and all public universities with higher rankings have unionized grad students.
Check out details on Rutgers' new contract, which includes a 32% pay increase over 4 years (8% a year) while protecting their 15-hour work week.
October, 2007: University of California graduate employee union ratifies contract, including a 5% yearly pay raise, new provisions for personal, sick, family and bereavement leave, childcare subsidies, and workload enforcement. More detail here.