Nate Heneghan was optimistic about his fledgling academic career when he joined USC's teaching ranks last fall as a lecturer in the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. But after just one semester in the job, disillusionment had set in. His paychecks weren't arriving on time. The university eliminated his vision insurance benefits. To make ends meet, he took on a crushing teaching load. That meant putting his research on the back burner — along with any hope of landing a tenure-track faculty position that would bring a measure of job security and higher pay. The way out of this dead-end spiral, he hopes, is to unionize.

February 1, 2016 ・ From Los Angeles Times