Aragon is one of two selected Labor Studies Commencement speakers and will address the class of 2024 next Saturday, June 15. / Photo provided by Micaela Aragon

Labor Studies Commencement Speaker Spotlight: Micaela Aragon

Students presented an array of labor studies research at the Labor@UCLA Research Showcase held on May 24. The event formed part of UCLA's Undergraduate Research Week. /Composite by Marcos Ruiz Rojas

Labor@UCLA Research Showcase 2024

Project Director for Labor and Community Partnerships Kent Wong speaking at the community rally held at UCLA’s Ackerman Union on April 24. Photo by: UCLA Labor Studies

UCLA Labor Studies co-hosts UFW labor rally for farmworkers

Message from Labor Studies Chair on Student Demonstrations

Members of the original independent union committee at the Mex Mode maquiladora.

Two veteran maquiladora women organizers offer their vision for a new era of labor solidarity

Los Angeles, CA. February 10, 2024. Unions and worker groups from the US, Mexico and Canada in a conference to discuss ways to support each other. Conference participants marched and rallied at the Mexican consulate to support strikers at the Mexican Audi plant. Photo by: David Bacon

UCLA Labor Center hosts tri-national summit promoting worker solidarity in response to USMCA

Benedicto Martinez and Robin Alexander march together in Mexico City, in a 2014 national protest on the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The marchers protested the economic and political reforms by the Mexican government and the then-ruling Party of the Institutionalized Revolution, setting the stage for the privatizing oil and electrical industries, implementing corporate education reform and social benefit policies, and changing the country's labor law.

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