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5. Just FYI, The OUSU is Not a Labor/Trade Union. It's More Analogous to a Student Government Assoc.

Sun Feb 24, 2013, 03:28 PM

Feb 2013

Just one of those silly differences between word meanings in the UK vs. the US.

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Oxford In Uproar Over Union Motion To Boycott Israel [View all] Purveyor Feb 2013 OP

an academic boycott is the antithesis of free speech Mosby Feb 2013 #2

Amazing isn't it malaise Feb 2013 #4

Errr, so having a discussion about a boycott is against free speech intaglio Feb 2013 #9

You may find the key issue to be dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #3

I didn't say it was dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #7

Umm, Yes. You Did Say It is a Trade Union. dballance Feb 2013 #8

OK - its not what I meant even if it read as that. dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #11

Galloway: "I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis". Nye Bevan Feb 2013 #10