UCLA IRLE and UCLA Library staff pose with David Huerta in UCLA Library Special Collections
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Willa Needham2025-10-30 09:02:162025-10-30 09:22:18L.A. labor leaders link the past and future during visit to UCLA campus
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Willa Needham2025-10-23 09:57:132025-10-23 09:57:13Meet UCLA IRLE’s 2025 Visiting Scholars
Left Photo: Damian Dovarganes / AP; Right Photo: Underwood Archives / Getty Images
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Willa Needham2025-10-22 09:08:412025-12-19 11:15:28Introducing “Labor Studies Now” speaker series
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Willa Needham2025-10-13 10:05:572025-10-13 10:08:56UCLA IRLE mourns the loss of Kent Wong
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Willa Needham2025-10-08 11:45:232025-10-08 12:05:37UCLA IRLE expert on the “conservative labor movement” and American Compass
Photo of Jennifer Jihye Chun, edited graphic by UCLA Labor Studies.
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Marcos Ruiz2025-09-29 07:30:212025-09-29 09:48:04Q&A with Jennifer Chun: Leading UCLA Labor Studies into a New Era
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Willa Needham2025-09-25 08:00:042025-09-25 13:02:01RELEASE– Historic first: UCLA launches Labor Studies Department
Activists from across the state support the UFW as they conduct outreach to workers about DALE in Bakersfield, CA. / Photo courtesy of Alejandra Quintero
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Willa Needham2025-08-28 10:50:362025-08-28 11:10:44Higher wages, heat safety and an equal voice: How workers won in 2024
UCLA Labor Summer Research Program 2025 Cohort. Photo by: UCLA Labor Studies
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Marcos Ruiz2025-08-27 09:57:392025-08-27 10:18:24UCLA Labor Summer Research Program 2025 Explores Organizing, AI, and Federal Policy Impacts
Workers, unions and allies march at a rally in 2024. / Toby Higbie
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Willa Needham2025-08-26 10:33:412025-08-26 10:35:19California workers and unions made gains in 2024—but what’s next for labor under Trump?
