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Union Fee

  • 16-11-2010 1:23pm
    #1
    ucd.1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Its prob too late now, but next year, could someone refuse to pay the union fee?

    Is this possible?


Comments

  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Of course you can refuse to pay. Just don't expect to get any results or credits at the end of the academic year.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,619 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Yeah there is an opt out, based on your constitutional right to form unions.

    In theory you would lose use of some facilities, but in practice I don't know if you would. (Especially if you were the only person to opt out).

    I discussed this with an ex sabbat yesterday in fact, with specific reference to use of the bar if you weren't part of the union. He said that the bars are actually run by a forum committee which means you should still be alright despite opting out of the union. He also said worst case scenario you'd have to be signed in.


  • #4
    ucd.1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭ucd.1985


    bnt wrote: »
    Of course you can refuse to pay. Just don't expect to get any results or credits at the end of the academic year.

    I said my union fee, not the registration fee.

    Please read the opening post before commenting.


  • #5
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    ucd.1985 wrote: »
    I said my union fee, not the registration fee.

    Please read the opening post before commenting.
    Please check your facts before getting snotty. If you have any outstanding balances on your account, you won't get your results. You can argue over whether the union fee should be on your account, but at this stage it is on your account, so you have to deal with the situation as it it, not as you would like it to be.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #6
    ucd.1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭ucd.1985


    bnt wrote: »
    Please check your facts before getting snotty. If you have any outstanding balances on your account, you won't get your results. You can argue over whether the union fee should be on your account, but at this stage it is on your account, so you have to deal with the situation as it it, not as you would like it to be.

    Never said I hadnt paid it this year. So your highlighting of "is" is rather stupid and just shows you didnt read the opening post.


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  • #7
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    ucd.1985 wrote: »
    Never said I hadnt paid it this year. So your highlighting of "is" is rather stupid and just shows you didnt read the opening post.

    He clearly meant that the fee has to be paid by everybody, every year. He did not mean that you currently have an outstanding balance. That should be pretty obvious to anybody that read his post. It was a hypothetical situation where a student had not paid the amount that was mentioned in his post, not specifically your situation.


  • #8
    Fad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    There's no fúcking need to get so snotty about it.

    He was asking would he be able to officially opt out. Like in TCD you can officially opt out of USI membership.


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