The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an accusatory new report this week, alleging that officials at the University of Southern California (USC) interfered with a vote early this year that would have decided whether faculty members should form a union. The report claims that the university gave raises to some non-tenure track faculty and threatened that faculty would not be allowed to serve on university committees if they voted to unionize. It also singles out USC Provost Michael Quick, claiming that he created "a general atmosphere of fear making a free election impossible." The report calls for a rejection of the initial results and for a new, fair election.
See "USC Violated Labor Rules by Interfering with Union Vote, Federal Report Says", Rosanna Xia, The Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2016