Excel for Labor Research

Whether you’re cutting turf, keeping track of 1:1s, analyzing donations to your local politicians, or investigating your boss, spreadsheets can be a versatile tool in campaigns. Level up your data analysis skills at this workshop. We’ll cover how to clean, combine and understand data using filters, pivot tables, formulas, and charts. This training is perfect for those who are Excel-curious: if you’ve already spent some time dabbling in rows and columns and want to develop more data analysis chops, this training is for you. Bring your laptops!

Laptop Recommended

Justin McBride, PhD, is the Program Manager of the UCLA Labor Studies Strategic Research Lab, and a former Campaign Manager for the AFL-CIO’s organizing department. Prior to coming to UCLA, Justin spend 15 years as a union organizer and strategic campaigner with UNITE, SEIU Local 1, and the AFL-CIO. He originally came to Los Angeles to support the CLEAN Carwash Campaign, a multi-organizational initiative dedicated to changing working conditions in the Los Angeles carwash industry and assist carwasheros in forming a union. Under Justin’s leadership, CLEAN eventually signed over 40 collective bargaining agreements with local carwash owners. At UCLA, Justin studied urban public finance and has published several articles on unionization drives, local sectoral bargaining policies, and local government and NGO finances. Justin now works with the UCLA Labor Studies Program and has been one of the co-organizers of the annual UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference from its inception.