The Tyrannical Farce of Canadian Academic Unions

No accountability, no expectations, no shame. The Labour Board has institutionalized the doctrine of the low bar: unions need not be competent, diligent, or even awake—merely animate.

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Imagine a theatre of the absurd where the actors have union cards, the director is asleep under the stage, and the audience is legally bound to applaud no matter how grotesque the performance. Welcome to the Canadian academic union landscape—a bureaucratic fever dream in which Orwellian doublethink and Soviet-grade unaccountability are not bugs but features.