Also, predictably, people in the comments are enraged because a story about "Western Mass" doesn't focus on the Berkshires, which all right-thinking people know is not the same as Western Mass. despite being at the western end of Mass.

Within @aaup.org, there's a lot of advocacy chapters who wonder what power they have without a CBA. We're here to say it doesn't matter. Organizing is organizing is organizing. You want the contract but if you act like a union then you're a union. I call this The Newsies Principle.

Glad that I am in this joke's target audience of 7 people.

This UC example makes clear the stakes. Yes, it's AAUP suing and not "the legal entity of the UC system." But the people represented by AAUP are the heart of what makes those Universities worth defending. They are "the University."

Maybe someday, I will teach a course without offering a primer on "Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State," but this is not that semester.

You could fit so many torts into that bad boy