"New employees would automatically be enrolled in a 'default union', but would be able to opt out." @norightturnnz@mastodon.social, 2026 https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/07/eating-labours-lunch.html This is how student union membership used to work. The right hated it, because it gave students independent and well-resourced bodies to lobby in their collective interests. They smeared it as "compulsory unionism", and sadly, its defenders let that phrase frame the debate, instead of insisting on calling it *universal*. #unions #StudentUnions