Longshoremen with Ph.D.'s?

Yeah, it may happen at UW campi:


This bill provides all UW System academic staff and all faculty, including
specifically faculty who are supervisors or managers, with the right to collectively
bargain over wages, hours, and conditions of employment. Collective bargaining
units are structured with separate units for faculty at each of the UW System
campuses and for academic staff at each of the UW System campuses. The bill also
provides that, if the employees approve by vote, any two or more units for faculty may
be combined into a single unit and any two or more units for academic staff may be
combined into a single unit. Representatives for each unit are chosen by election.


Unfair labor practices for UW System academic staff and faculty collective
bargaining are generally the same as those under SELRA, except that the bill
specifically provides that it is not an unfair labor practice for the Board of Regents
of the UW System to implement changes in salaries or conditions of employment for
members of the faculty or academic staff at one UW institution and not for such
persons at other UW institutions if certain conditions are met. The bill specifically
authorizes fair−share and maintenance of membership agreements for UW
academic staff and faculty collective bargaining, as is the case under SELRA. The
bill also prohibits strikes.

HT: The Capital Curmudgeon, who keeps a wary eye on Sen. Schultz (not related, we think, to Sergeant Schultz of TV fame--but he's trying!)