That is the issue with regard to a group of UNC employees who are upset that the university declined to print an article advocating collective bargaining for public employees in a university publication, the University Gazette. Here is the storyin the N&O.
UNC is correct on this. It is not censorship to decline to publish an article in a publication you own. It is censorship if you take steps to prevent a person or group from publishing an article in something you don’t own. UNC is not and cannot interfere with the employees if they wish to submit their article to other magazines, newspapers, etc.
The idea that there is a right to publish your views in a university newsletter just because you are employed by the university is another example of the rampant entitlement mentality.
As to the question of collective bargaining itself, North Carolina is already one of the most highly taxed states and if it were to allow collective bargaining, the almost inevitable result would be increasing costs and declining productivity. Unless you’d like to see the state become another New York or Michigan, you should oppose the effort to bring NC into the ranks of the states that have caved in to Big Labor.
