A selection from the new Power from the Past website - Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) leads a Grocery Workers Justice Pilgrimage during the Southern California supermarket strike of 2003-2004. LAANE Collection, IRLE Archives.
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Willa Needham2026-04-01 09:51:052026-04-01 09:51:05Power from the Past: Inspiring organizing in the present and futureThe Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) is a multidisciplinary research center advancing labor research and education for economic justice. Through the work of its units, academic department and research initiatives, the Institute powers wide-ranging economic equity agendas that bring UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
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A selection from the new Power from the Past website - Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) leads a Grocery Workers Justice Pilgrimage during the Southern California supermarket strike of 2003-2004. LAANE Collection, IRLE Archives.
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Ana Christina Ramón, director of the UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative (EMRI) at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
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Willa Needham2026-03-11 10:46:432026-03-11 10:46:43UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report reshapes the industry conversation on representation
Ruth Milkman, labor sociologist, gives lecture on the state of the labor movement in the 2020s
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Willa Needham2026-02-06 10:30:582026-02-06 11:42:58“Generation Union”: The people and strategies powering the labor movement in the 2020s
The LOSH team and partners from LA County Department of Public Health’s Office of Worker Health and Safety conduct outreach to workers cleaning up toxic ash and debris after the 2025 fire in Altadena. / UCLA LOSH
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Willa Needham2026-02-03 09:04:452026-02-03 09:13:23LOSH supports workers in the aftermath of the 2025 Los Angeles fires- Three unions unite in massive LAUSD strike threat: What’s at stake for workers, families, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Tia Koonse, UCLA Labor Center legal and policy research director, April 9, 2026
- When 1 million marched for immigrant rights in Downtown L.A., KCRW, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director and Chris Zepeda-Millán, UCLA Labor Studies professor, March 25, 2026
- Hollywood’s top films were less diverse in 2025: ‘Studios have relapsed into a colorblind complacency’, Los Angeles Times, Ft. Ana-Christina Ramón, UCLA Entertainment and Media Research Initiative Director, March 12, 2026
- Koreatown’s frontline supermarket workers are underpaid and stretched thin, LA Public Press, Mentions UCLA Labor Center study, February 18, 2026
- What Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy looks like in today’s movements, UCLA Newsroom, Ft. Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA Labor Studies professor, January 17, 2026
- New Trump Policy Could Make Thousands Of Immigrants Vulnerable To Losing Their Jobs, Huffpost, Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director, October 30, 2025
- A play about the revolt of human workers — not machines — gave us the word ‘robot’, NPR, Ft. Tobias Higbie, UCLA IRLE Director, September 12, 2025
