Dive Brief:

• A faculty union at Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law says a dean has retaliated against union organizers by giving them raises of $666, “in effect” calling them Satan.
• The complaint says that faculty members who received raises generally got either $5000, $3000 or $666; eight union organizers received $666.
• The union says it is clear evidence of an anti-union bias; the school says the complaint is without merit. 

Dive Insight:

TaxProfBlog has a quote from the full complaint: "[The $666 figure] is a universally understood symbol of the Antichrist or Devil -- one of our culture's most violent religious images. Implicitly, but unmistakably and obviously intentionally, [the Dean] used his powers to set faculty salaries as an occasion to brand his perceived opponents as the Antichrist." 

[Editor's Note: If you enjoyed this story, you might also like our feature on recent organizing efforts at six universities.]