We study the action of the symmetric group Σn on a tensor product of n − 1 copies of a commutative Hopf algebra A, defined by the second author [8]. We show that for ‘nice’ Hopf algebras, the cohomology algebra H∗(Σn;A⊗n−1) is independent of the coproduct if n.(n − 2)! is invertible in the ground ring. Let A be a graded, connected, unital, counital, associative, coassociative Hopf algebra. In s...