RTPC faculty vote in favor of union
The result comes nearly a year and a half after first petitioning to create a union.
By ANYA MOTWANI & DAVID RENDON
Editor’s Note: This article was updated June 3 at 2:57 p.m. to to include a University statement.
USC’s non-tenure track faculty has voted in favor of a union, according to a post early Wednesday morning by United Faculty-UAW. The election received 1,821 votes, with nearly 70% voting to approve the union. The union would represent more than 2,500 research, training, practitioner and clinical-track faculty, regardless of their vote or whether they cast a ballot. The University could appeal the election results or accept them.
“We’re thrilled and will continue organizing until we win a fair contract,” UF-UAW wrote in its post.
UF-UAW first filed its petition to unionize with the National Labor Relations Board on Dec. 10, 2024.
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In January, during UF-UAW’s National Labor Relations Board hearings, the University cited legal and organizational concerns with the unionizing effort.
In a statement to the Daily Trojan on Wednesday, the University echoed that sentiment.
“We are grateful to our faculty for all they do for our students and as partners in our academic mission. This election has presented not just important substantive issues but important legal issues as well,” the statement read. “The University has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to quickly review the validity of this result as the first step toward obtaining much-needed legal clarity over these issues.”
