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Willa Needham2026-09-21 09:45:012026-09-21 12:24:16The Faster Labor Contracts Act, ExplainedThe UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) advances labor research and education for workplace justice. Through the work of its units and initiatives, the Institute promotes effective public policy, bridges campus and community, and prepares the next generation of scholars and organizers.
IRLE units and programs
IRLE research initiatives
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Willa Needham2026-09-21 09:45:012026-09-21 12:24:16The Faster Labor Contracts Act, Explained
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Willa Needham2026-09-11 16:54:062026-09-14 09:45:57Announcing IRLE’s “Meeting the Moment, Building the Movement” series
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Willa Needham2026-09-01 07:01:042026-09-01 07:28:10RELEASE: The California labor movement continues to grow as workers push back against federal labor and immigration policies
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Willa Needham2026-08-13 13:29:392026-08-13 13:30:21UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference 2026 Highlights- May Day celebrations are just around the corner, ARN Stories, Ft. Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, UCLA Labor Center project director, April 22, 2026
- 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
