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That is totally BS. If you want to put in a section about 'controversy' and document it with citations, then fine. But you can't say a page that doesn't contain detailed descriptions of those that oppose it is 'propaganda.' The other union web pages on Wiki do not contain such remarks and they are
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I just adjusted the "anniversary strike" section to indicate that the meeting and strongly-supporting vote were of GET-UP. Otherwise it could appear to be of some other graduate student group (GSAC, GAPSA, whatever). Actually, is/was GET-UP itself striving to represent all graduate students, or only
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All but one of the included links for this page are dead (404). I added in a new link and did peripheral Google searches to find replacements; however, most of the content on this page is unsubstantiated claims. I think that more should be deleted from this page; however, I am leaving it for now so
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The issue of grad employee unionization in the US has been major news in the last six years, with many stories appearing in the national news. Closer to home, GET-UP has been associated with tens if not hundreds of Daily
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The article says "Strike not supported by all graduate student", not "most". Further, two of the articles you linked to stated explicity that GSAC and GAPSA passed motions declayring neutrality to the unionization movement (a fact which is already in the
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