a policy requiring students to join unions regardless of consent, often under the guise of funding student services
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a retrograde step undermining student choice
\\ \\ **Press Release**\\ \\ **Greens put union coffers before students**\\ \\ ****Parmjeet Parmar****\\ \\ 12 Aug 2026\\ \\ "The Greens believe in student power right up until a student says no. By promising to undo voluntary student membership, they want to drag students back to the Helen Clark days, when compulsory unionism was treated as normal," says ACT Tertiary Education spokesperson Dr Parmjeet Parmar.\\ \\ **Read More**Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
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