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SUMMARY:Meeting the Moment\, Building the Movement\, Part 2– Labor Strategies to Defend Immigrant Worker Rights Today
DESCRIPTION:Date and Time: October 16\, 2026\, 10-11:30 PDT \nLocation: Virtual \nRSVP \nPart 2 of the “Meeting the Moment” series brings together three leaders at the forefront of labor and community responses to the current militarized federal immigration in cities across the U.S. Facing the largest deportation campaign since the 1950s\, labor unions and their members\, alongside allies in the immigrant rights movement\, are taking creative\, nonviolent action to defend communities. \nThe virtual panel will welcome David Huerta\, President of SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West (USWW)\, Bernie Burnham\, President of the Minnesota AFL-CIO\, and Kurt Petersen\, Vice President of UNITE HERE Local 11\, to share their insights as leaders of the movement. \nSpeakers\nDavid Huerta\, President\, SEIU California and SEIU-United Service Workers West (USWW): David Huerta is a veteran labor organizer and the president of SEIU California and SEIU–United Service Workers West\, representing hundreds of thousands of janitors\, security officers and service workers. He began his career in the 1990s as an organizer with Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and has been recognized for his leadership in immigrant integration and worker empowerment. In June 2025\, while serving as a peaceful community observer during an ICE raid in downtown Los Angeles\, Huerta was injured and arrested on felony charges of conspiring to impede a federal officer. After protests by union members\, civil rights groups and Democratic leaders\, he was released three days later after posting a $50\,000 bond. This moment cemented his reputation as a steadfast advocate for labor and immigrant rights\, and as a symbol of resistance to federal overreach. \nBernie Burnham\, President\, MN AFL-CIO:Bernie Burnham became President of the Minnesota AFL-CIO in 2021 in a history-making election. As a Pacific-Islander\, she is the first person of color to head the state’s labor federation. During Operation Metro Surge\, she led Minnesota’s labor movement in coalition with community and religious organizations in the fight against ICE’s brutal assault on immigrant rights\, worker rights\, and the deaths of innocent Minnesotans. The struggle is ongoing as labor stands up to the administration’s continued weaponization of the federal government to intimidate unions\, communities\, and anyone who peacefully opposes its radical authoritarian agenda. \nKurt Petersen\, Co-president\, UNITE HERE Local 11: Kurt Petersen is a Co-President of UNITE HERE Local 11\, which represents 35\,000 hotel and food service workers in Southern California and Arizona. Petersen studied Theology/Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and attended Yale Law School. He went on to win the first union contract for farm workers in Washington State history at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery with the United Farm Workers. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1995\, he has organized more than 25\,000 workers into UNITE HERE. Most recently\, Petersen led the largest hotel strike in the nation’s history\, and won a life-changing contract with 50% wage increases\, including groundbreaking language that gave workers the right to strike if the activity of ICE or Border Control threatened worker safety during the 2026 World Cup. Local 11’s hotel and stadium contracts will expire in January 2028\, months before the Olympics. Petersen\, along with his Co-Presidents Ada Briceno and Susan Minato\, was recently named in the Los Angeles Times 2024 LA Influential list. \nModerator \nGaspar Rivera-Salgado: Gaspar Rivera-Salgado is currently project director at UCLA Labor Center and labor studies lecturer at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. He is also the Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies. He teaches classes on work\, labor and social justice in the US and immigration issues. Among his publications include the volume (with J. Fox) Indigenous Mexican Migration in the United States (UCSD 2005); and the recently published volume (with E. Telles\, and M. Sawyer) Just Neighbors: Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States (Russell Sage\, 2011). He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
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SUMMARY:UCLA Coding Bootcamp for Union Research
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Strategic Research Lab will hold a five-day intensive training in using the power of Python coding to simplify tasks for union research. The camp will be held in the summer of 2027\, and applications will open in late February.  \nThe Coding Bootcamp is an intense and challenging experience! Come ready to jump feet first into a weeklong journey towards simplifying your work\, discovering new data sources\, and automating your most routine research tasks! \nKey Training Topics:\n\nPython fundamentals\nDynamically moving and combining multiple files\nFuzzy matching different data sets\nUse APIs to bulk download data\, such as open government data\nScraping websites to collect data\, such as:\n\nproperty listings\,\ncompany information\,\ngovernment data\,\npdfs\, and\ndata sets that cannot be downloaded directly\n\n\nCleaning\, merging\, and deduplicating data  such as worker lists\, property records\, or company information\nUsing text patterns to extract data\n\nWho should apply \nThis course is designed for union or movement researchers that often encounter large amounts of data in the course of their work. The skills taught in this course will allow students to collect\, process\, and analyze data more efficiently and accurately. \nThis course does not cover topics such as databases (i.e. SQL)\, advanced data analysis (i.e. statistics and data modeling)\, machine learning\, or extracting text from PDFs–these are advanced topics that cannot be covered in the time we have\, but students will have a solid Python foundation and can work on self-teaching these topics after the course. \nPrior coding experience is not required to attend this course. However\, all accepted students must participate in a short\, self-paced python pre-course. We will also cover Python fundamentals together in class.  \n\nAdvice From the 2025 Coding Bootcamp Cohort:\n“You should definitely attend this program if you’re thinking about it! This program really helps make coding feel so much more accessible no matter how much experience you have coming in. I have learned so many different ways to use coding to make my work so much more efficient and comprehensive.” \n“It is like drinking out of a firehouse. That’s just the way this sort of thing works. Keeping a good attitude and accepting that you will be challenged is extremely crucial to being successful.” \n“I have learned so much and feel so much more capable in the work I do.” \n\nEvent Details:\n\nDates: TBA – Summer 2027\nTime: Monday-Friday\, 8am-6pm\nLocation: UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center\, Los Angeles\nCost: $850 (includes training materials & refreshments)\nMeals: Not included\, but local dining options are available\n\n\nThe Instructor: Mellissa Chang\n \nMellissa Chang (she/hers) is freelance campaign researcher and data engineer. She conducts data-informed campaign research and builds data tools for labor unions and non-profits. Prior to this\, she was a research coordinator at the Private Equity Stakeholder Project\, where she tracked and analyzed eviction data and acquisitions to support tenant organizing campaigns around the country. During the pandemic\, she closely tracked covid relief spending\, identifying parent recipients and matching recipients to a database of federal regulatory violations\, earning her the DC Femme Tech Award in 2021. Before entering the non-profit sphere\, she worked as an airports campaign researcher at 32BJ. Mellissa holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In her spare time\, she builds automated mass transit systems in Minecraft. \n  \nApplication details \nThis application includes a short diagnostic test. The results of this test are only used to help design the course and are NOT factored into your application assessment. \nThis course is rigorous and fast-paced. By applying to this course\, you pledge to remain focused and engaged\, and to ask for help when needed. \n\nEmail srl@irle.ucla.edu for more information or if you have any questions. \n\nAbout The UCLA Strategic Research Lab:\nThe UCLA Strategic Research Lab is a capacity-building training hub and network for researchers from labor and community-based organizations. As a research unit of a public university\, the SRL seeks to train strategic researchers for the common good. Besides the Coding Camp for Union Research\, the Strategic Research Lab also holds its annual Strategic Labor Research Conference\, one of the largest annual convenings of labor and movement researchers in the nation.  \nSign up for email updates for other Strategic Research Lab events and trainings here.  \n 
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