How Carleton University's pension fight could affect us all

I write as a concerned faculty member during the third week of the CUPE 2424 strike at Carleton University. The labour dispute, as the administration calls it, provides an object lesson in the workings of institutional power. But the politics of this power and the economies on which it relies are not quite as self-evident as the administration might have us believe.
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