Academia is trash. Complete and utter trash.
The union in question is the University and College Union, which represents 120,000 members in the UK. It has a long and glorious history of radical activism, and its members clearly do not represent the views of all academics in the UK. It’s membership skews to academics and university employees at the lower end of the prestige and income scale, but with 120,000 members it represents over 50% of academic staff in the UK.
The Telegraph:
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