Really depends on your mentor. I've seen some gross abuses where the union was absolutely essential.
Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.
Also the union hooked up like BBQs and whatever so like, that's nice.
Give us what we want or... we'll quit our degrees and throw away years of our lives?
Give us what we want or you have no teachers and your research output drops to near-zero. Most of the actual work of scientific research is done by what we politely euphemize as "early career researchers" or "junior authors": grad-students and postdocs. Tenured and tenure-track professors don't do the bulk of the bench-work, even when they really enjoy it.