To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.
At Keck Medicine, which brings in almost half the university’s revenue, workers say their wages and benefits lag other large health systems.
The power and corruption of big institutions was once far greater, says Robert Gottlieb, a historian of the L.A. Times. Then, as now, social movements are our best defense.
Since 2002, USC has spent more than $550 million on its police force. Community critics say armed officers feel more like an occupying force than a security necessity.
Will the school bond’s failure serve as a wake-up call to pass a Proposition 13 reform initiative in November?
Borrowing tactics from the Occupy and labor movements, a coalition of faculty and anti-gentrification activists has set up a tent city outside the University of Southern California. Their proclaimed target: USC’s culture of greed and opaqueness.