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Compulsory uni service fees to be reintroduced (2 Viewers)

Do you support VSU?

  • Yes, VSU should stay

    Votes: 18 64.3%
  • No, VSU should go

    Votes: 10 35.7%

  • Total voters
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spartan31234

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VSU is going out?

Nb this is about university students unionism

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/new-row-over-student-unionism-20090224-8gvo.html

It looks like the labor party is trying to remove VSU, do you support this?

Personally I like the idea of VSU – Is it compulsory for lectures to join a union, do workers have to join unions – NO!If it is voluntary for them it should be voluntary for us!

The current system is good, the Unions can still provide non-essential services to enrich the students experience, however now we have to pay for it like everything else.

I would be happy to join and support a union Voluntarily if I knew my money is not going to support, radical political agenda of some clubs and religious agendas – I mean where do they get the money to supply a free barbeques…? Someone tell me that wasn’t rhetorical…

How I see it Unions provide essential services to students – but most of them are non essential. If it wasn’t for the liberals we would forced to waste $300 +++ dollars per year at least most of it…

If more of the Unions were members were less ultra socialist their services would be more sustainable even with minimal support form universities

The problem is unions are sometimes hijacked by people who have there own political/personal agendas, I support unions on a lot of their issues however I disagree with some of it as well.
Unions are essential, however they will survive with VSU

So NO communism in Uni’s VSU Stays!!!

what do u think i think we need another VSU debate - this i my view i will be happy to concider urs

Err by the way VSU stands for Voluntary Student Unionism if anyone doesn’t know
 

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Re: VSU is going out?

Sadly, it looks like the removal of VSU is going to be inevitable.
 
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Lucky i had class yesterday but i was going to go down to belt the NUS president. cant remember his name but that tool better watch out. Im going to break his glasses.
 
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Re: VSU is going out?

I support VSU and it will be a sad day if it is removed.
 

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Lucky i had class yesterday but i was going to go down to belt the NUS president. cant remember his name but that tool better watch out. Im going to break his glasses.
Noah White: certified arsehole.
 

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Re: VSU is going out?

Oh I stand corrected, they're all the same to me.
 
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David Barrow is the NUS president, he goes to UTS and he's a tall skinny gay man commonly seen near the student services area near the glasshouse.

If someone kills him, I'll give them $20.00.
david Barrow. thats him. me and johny will deal with that mother fucker. and ill put a video up on youtube. ROFLMAO
 

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Re: VSU is going out?

They should change their name
Australian National Union of Students
 

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What's everyone's problem with David Barrow? Most everyone I know who knows him likes him well enough. Not at all as disliked as Angus McFarland was, or indeed the previously mentioned Noah White.
 
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What's everyone's problem with David Barrow? Most everyone I know who knows him likes him well enough. Not at all as disliked as Angus McFarland was, or indeed the previously mentioned Noah White.
i hate the mother fucker because every time i talk to him he tries to sweet talk his way through the conversation.


and he is the NUS president
 

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What's everyone's problem with David Barrow? Most everyone I know who knows him likes him well enough. Not at all as disliked as Angus McFarland was, or indeed the previously mentioned Noah White.
Angus McFarland went to my school. He was near universally disliked there as captain, so NUS was a formality.

There is no justifiable reason for the removal of VSU. Not that that will stop the NUS. Is there an annual report or something that the NUS is/will be required to release that will show where they have allocated their distribution of funds?
 

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So ... Taxing students and removing the cap and basing commonwealth funding to unis based on student numbers.

GG Rudd government. Anybody wanna tell me why Ruddkip is so great? No don't, I'll punch you.
 

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