Keep Unions Out of Grad School

True enough, the bad marriages do exist, tenured dogs can make life hard for their undergrads and post docs, but new tenured positions are getting rarer as old ones die off.

I think that somehow correcting the power imbalance is the key to improving the lives of grad students. In most normal jobs, if your boss is a jerk, you typically have the ability to leave and go somewhere else, and quite possibly end up better compensated as a result. It is exceedingly difficult to switch phd advisors, especially without sustaining a significant setback in your graduate career. I believe this one of the leading factors in exploitive advisor-grad relationships.