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Originally Posted by [Phill]
Did you not realise as a republican you like this?
Market forces, weak union protecting labour, management responding to customers. Its a conservative utopia of how higher education should be run.
I don't agree that it is market forces that is causing such political correctness in Universities.Those students are going to the University regardless of the outcome.
I'm also not against unions per se and I think they were probably necessary as a reaction to conditions created by manufacturers in the late 1800's.
What conservatives oppose are that unions use legislation to make membership mandatory. A union is a result of the free market working. Employees realizing their labor is worth more than they are getting paid if they pool their negotiating power together and forming a voluntary association with one another.
Also, the heavily subsidized nature of Universities today is a far cry from a free market.