The UCLA Labor Studies Department is excited to facilitate the attendance of UCLA students to MAY DAY in Los Angeles!!!! May Day is the international celebration dedicated to workers. Occurring on May 1st, Los Angeles not only dedicates this day to honor the struggles of workers, but it also recognizes other social issues associated with […]
Book Talk: Jonathan Rosenblum on How Socialists Win In Conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley Veteran labor organizer and journalist Jonathan Rosenblum discusses his new book, We're Coming For You and Your Rotten System: How Socialists Beat Amazon and Upended Big-City Politics, an insider’s account of Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant and the successful […]
Date: Friday, May 1st Time: 10 AM Location: MacArthur Park This May 1st, join us at MacArthur Park at 10 AM and march alongside workers from every sector, trade, and craft. This year’s message is clear: Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Come out and be part of LA’s annual May Day march! 📢 Students […]
Profs. Jennifer Jihye Chun (UCLA) and Ju Hui Judy Han (UCLA) joined by Prof. Tobias Higbie (UCLA), Prof. Jong Bum Kwon (Webster University), Prof. Hannah Appel (UCLA), and Prof. Zeynep Korkman (UCLA) Thursday, May 14, 2026 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Bunche Hall, Room 10383 RSVP HERE! About the Book Against Abandonment: Repertoire of […]
Date: May 22nd Time: 1-3 P.M. Location: Public Affairs 1323 & Zoom RSVP HERE! We are excited to announce our 4th annual Labor@UCLA Research Showcase - Friday, May 22nd, 2026 from 1-3 pm in-person at Public Affairs 1323 and via zoom! This event is part of Undergraduate Research Week. Undergraduate Research Week is a week-long […]
Building a Career in the Labor Movement Panel Join us for a Labor Career Panel featuring speakers working across advocacy, hospitality organizing, immigration, and the labor movement, including one speaker currently pursuing graduate studies. Learn about their professional journeys, experiences in and beyond graduate school, and the different paths they’ve taken to build careers connected […]
Thursday, May 28, 2026 • UCLA Labor Center • 5:30 PM 675 S Park View Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057 What drew Jewish immigrants to the labor movement? How did unions become distinctly "Jewish" spaces -- and what happened when they changed? Join historians, organizers, and community leaders for a panel on Jewish labor activism […]
In 2025, the Trump administration unleashed a series of anti-labor and anti-immigrant policies that dramatically impacted working families in the U.S. and in California. Coming soon from the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), the “State of the Unions” report tracks how workers and unions responded to this critical moment. The UCLA […]
Successful drives to form new unions may generate buzz and media attention, but the most meaningful change happens after that first battle is won—in employer negotiations. For many workers, forming a union is only the beginning of a longer battle to improve work standards and conditions. Just 1 in 2 bargaining units formed in California […]
Date and Time: October 9, 2026, 10-11:30 PDT Location: Virtual RSVP Against the backdrop of unemployment and civil unrest in the early 1990s, California Republicans offered voters a simple, brutal solution: criminalize undocumented immigrants. Proposition 187, a statewide voter initiative, threatened to exclude immigrants from all public services and to enlist teachers, neighbors and faith […]
