What kind of work do labor studies students get involved in after graduation? Join National Hispanic Media Coalition Policy Fellow Julio Chavez for a conversation with the Labor Studies Team about real-world applications of a degree in labor studies! Guest Speaker: Julio Chavez is a Policy Fellow for the National Hispanic Media Coalition Policy Fellow […]
Thursday, April 7th 4:00 p.m. Zoom Webinar Join UNITE HERE Local 11 and the UCLA Institute of Research on Labor & Employment in rediscovering the history of L.A.'s hotel worker union - one of labor history's great turnaround stories. Listen to our panel of Union Leaders, Workers, and Documentarian's who helped to bring this history […]
The Public Interest Law Program at UCLA School of Law is hosting a virtual event on Professor Victor Narro's new book The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity on Wednesday, April 20 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Book description: Labor and immigrant rights activist Victor Narro believes there is a spiritual core within social justice activism […]
Please join us for a Book Talk with Dr. Cranford, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto and author of Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (Cornell University Press, 2020) on April 21nd, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. Home care is a window into the complexity of inequality. Drawing from Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding […]
Tuesday, April 26th 11am PDT On Campus and Virtual Lydeen Library, UCLA Rolfe Hall 4302 This book talk will feature: La Izquierda Mexicana del Siglo XX, a chronology of three books (Book 1, Chronology; Book 2, Social Movements; Book 3, Arts and Humanities), which is an essential mural for acquiring a global vision of the presence […]
Tuesday, April 26th 4pm PDT/ 7pm EDT Zoom Webinar Canada-China Focus Presents a webinar with Kent Wong, Director, UCLA Labor Center, founding president, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. Solidarity exchanges between trade unions in China, Canada and US were put on hold by COVID. At the same time economic and geo-political conflicts between nations have […]
April 27, 2022 11am PDT On Campus and Virtual UCLA Bunche Hall 10383 This panel will analyze the long history between the Mexican Left and the Chicano Movement of the 60s and 70s. Speakers: Ing. Arturo Martínez Nateras, México, Author Joel Ochoa, Los Angeles, Retired Machinist Union organizer Chris Zepeda-Millán, Professor, UCLA Chicano Studies Toby […]
The May Day Coalition invites the entire community to celebrate with us a Los Angeles tradition, May Day, a day to honor workers and immigrants. This year’s theme is Essential and United for Justice. On May 1, 2022, we rally at 11 a.m. and march at 12 p.m. from the intersection of Olympic Blvd. and […]
Join us on Thursday, May 12 at 10am-1:30pm PDT for a webinar event on labor and the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America. This event will be in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation. Panel 1: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Gig Workers in Latin America in Times of Global Pandemic Speakers: Saúl Gómez, #NiUnRepartidorMenos en […]
