Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

‘We are not part of your family’: Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online
Thursday, February 17th
2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m
Zoom Webinar
This lecture will focus on how Latin American Domestic Workers, through their membership in the International Domestic Workers Federation, have led the global movement to advance domestic workers’ rights. In particular, it will share insights about how domestic workers have used grassroots organizing, strategic alliance building, and transnational solidarity to secure and enforce one of the most historic victories for domestic workers: C189, the Domestic Workers Convention of the International Labor Organisation.
Guest speaker: Adriana Paz Ramirez, Regional Coordinator for the Americans, International Domestic Workers Federation
Adriana Paz Ramirez is a labor rights organizer and popular educator based in Mexico and Canada. Originally from Bolivia, she is the regional coordinator for the Americas for the International Domestic Workers Federation. Prior to that, she was the senior organizer for the Workers’ Action Centre in Toronto and the gender, equity, and women’s empowerment officer at the Solidarity Center in Mexico. She was also the manager of the International Development certificate program for the University of British Columbia, and co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers in British Columbia, a national grassroots organization advocating for the labor and immigration rights of migrant farm workers. Currently, Adriana holds an Open Society Fellowship in which she will identify how the strengths of grassroots organizing can be leveraged to tackle the challenges of policy enforcement and implementation, based on the successes of the Latin American domestic workers movement.
Panel Moderator: Jennifer Jihye Chun, Asian American Studies, Labor Studies, and the International Institute
Co-sponsors: UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA Latin American Institute, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, Center for the Study of Women
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IRLE Director Speaker Series: Front of the House, Back of the House
2022-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Wednesday, February 16th
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m
Zoom Webinar

Two unequal worlds of work exist within the upscale restaurant scene of Los Angeles. White, college-educated servers operate in the front of the house—also known as the public areas of the restaurant—while Latino immigrants toil in the back of the house and out of customer view.
In Front of the House, Back of the House, Eli Revelle Yano Wilson shows us what keeps these workers apart, exploring race, class, and gender inequalities in the food service industry.
Drawing on research at three different high-end restaurants in Los Angeles, Wilson highlights why these inequalities persist in the twenty-first century, pointing to discriminatory hiring and supervisory practices that ultimately grant educated whites access to the most desirable positions. Additionally, he shows us how workers navigate these inequalities under the same roof, making sense of their jobs, their identities, and each other in a world that reinforces their separateness.
Front of the House, Back of the House takes us behind the scenes of the food service industry, providing a window into the unequal lives of white and Latino restaurant workers.
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson is assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico. His research explores how race, work, and inequality intersect in the new economy. His first book, Front of the House, Back of the House (NYU Press), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine in 2021. Dr. Wilson is currently finishing a new book that examines the racialized and classed work careers and identities among U.S. craft beer workers.

We Gon’ Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers
2022-02-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
UCLA Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work is hosting a virtual open house for the 2022 Spring Quarter course We Gon’ Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers on Thursday, February 10th, 6:00pm. This virtual space will cover topics such as labor equity in the COVID era, the class as a training ground for organizers and the fellowship as a paid summer opportunity for organizer training. Register for the open house to learn more about the class and internship opportunities.
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Week 6 Virtual Hangout - Returning to Campus: Self-Compassion as Self-Preservation Workshop
2022-02-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Let’s share space and have a casual conversation about self-compassion and self-preservation. Join Labor Studies Teaching Fellow, Emely Rauda, and Labor Studies and UCLA Law Faculty member, Victor Narro, as they share their LBR STD M167 workshop about the social determinants of health that affect our wellbeing and share ways we can care for ourselves during these challenging times.
Victor Narro is a Labor Studies Professor currently teaching LBR STD 177 – Spirituality, Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Social Justice. Narro, who is also a project director at the UCLA Labor Center, is an expert on immigrant workplace rights, and is also a lecturer at UCLA Law, offering a unique perspective on organizing through the lens of mindfulness.
Emely Rauda is a first-gen graduate student from Palmdale, California. Focusing on community health in Latin America, she received her Master’s of Public Health and is working towards a Master’s in Latin American Studies. Emely is currently the Teaching Associate for the Labor course M167 – Worker Center Movement: Next Wave Organizing for Justice for Immigrant Workers with Professor Narro.
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Reality in Movement: Octavio Paz as Essayist and Public Intellectual
2022-01-26 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Zoom Virtual Event
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PST
“Reality in Movement” explores Mexican poet Octavio Paz, not only biographically or as an intellectual, but through various conversations he had, ranging from feminism to psychoanalysis, taking into account the time in which he lived.
“Reality in Movement” explora al poeta Mexicano Octavio Paz, no solamente de manera biográfica o como intelectual, pero a través de varias conversaciones que él tuvo, variando desde el feminismo hasta el psicoanálisis, tomando en cuenta el tiempo en que vivió.
Author/Autor: Maarten Van Delden, UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Moderator/Comentadora: Malva Flores, Universidad Veracruzana
This event will be co-presented by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the UCLA Latin American Studies Institute.
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Week 2 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with Labor Studies Professor & UC-AFT Rep. Caroline Luce
2022-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Want to learn more about what it’s like to teach while in the labor movement? Join the Labor Studies team and Professor Caroline Luce for a conversation about her experiences as a UCLA alum, professor and Communications Committee Chair for UC-AFT!

Caroline Luce is a historian whose work sits at the intersection of labor history, Jewish studies, and digital humanities. She served as Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish LA, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and is the current chair of the Communications Committee of UC-AFT. Her specialty is immigration, labor, and working-class culture in the American West, and she is currently writing a book about the Yiddish-speaking Jewish diaspora in Los Angeles. This winter quarter, she is the instructor for LBR STD 188, SEM 1 – A Common Thread: Garment Workers Past, Present, Future.

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Week 9 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with Policy Analyst Tracie Sanchez, '13
2021-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
What kind of work do Labor Studies students get involved in after graduation? Join the Labor Studies team, Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernandez and UCLA alum Tracie Sánchez for a conversation about working at the U.S Government Accountability Office!
Tracie Sánchez is a first-gen UCLA alum and an analyst at the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Education and Income Security team. As an analyst, Tracie produces reports on education and workforce topics for Congress, which include recommendations for improving federal programs.
Janna Shadduck-Hernández, Ed.D. is a project director at the UCLA Labor Center and teaches for the UCLA Labor Studies program and in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Her research and teaching focus on developing culturally-relevant, participatory educational models with first- and second-generation university students, community members and youth.
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AMLO and the Press: A Conversation with Journalists
2021-11-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Zoom Virtual Event
Friday, November 19, 2021
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PST
This roundtable, conducted in English, will feature two journalists, one from a U.S. media outlet, Carrie Kahn, Mexico, Central America & Caribbean Correspondent at NPR, and a Mexican media outlet, David Brooks, U.S. Correspondent at La Jornada in conversation about Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) presidency.
This event will be moderated by Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center.
This event will be co-presented by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the UCLA Latin American Studies Institute.
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Career Chat: Internships and Careers at the Labor Commissioner's Office
2021-11-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Are you interested in interning or working at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Join us for a Career Chat to learn about how you can get involved! Special guests are UCLA alumna and Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Deputy Labor Commissioner Andres Herrera, who will share their experience with internships and tips for the hiring process at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office!
Guest Speakers:
Jocelyn Lopez, Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner
Andres Herrera, Deputy Labor Commissioner
Speaker Bios:
Jocelyn Lopez is a first generation college student who graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s of Arts in political science and a minor in labor studies. Despite her limited knowledge in the system and struggling to navigate college and build a career, Jocelyn has gone on to receive her Master’s in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and is now a Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, under the Judgment Enforcement Unit and she’s also a labor studies lecturer at Los Angeles Trade Tech College. Jocelyn is very thankful to her college counselors and mentors who guided her along the way and look forward to helping those beginning their journey as well.
Andres Herrera is a first generation college student who graduated from UC Irvine with a Bachelor’s of Arts in political science and a minor in sociology. After graduating from UC Irvine he enrolled to LA Trade Tech College to gain further knowledge in labor studies. While studying at LA Trade Tech he interned for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. After his internship he volunteered for the Wage Justice Center to help combat wage theft. Andres is now a Deputy Labor Commissioner in the Judgment Enforcement Unit. He believes that his career in the Labor Commissioner’s Office is very rewarding as he helps victims of wage theft collect their unpaid judgments. He is motivated to inspire and help the next generation of college students attain their dream career.
Tuesday, November 16th, 3-4PM
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Week 6 Labor Studies Virtual Hangout – A Chat with Workers and Learners
2021-11-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Wonder what kind of research projects labor studies students are involved in? We invite you to our Week 6 Virtual Hangout with students who conduct research on the experiences of “workers and learners,” or those who both work and attend college in Los Angeles County. Join us to learn more about the researchers’ findings, have a candid conversation about what can be done to support workers and learners and more!
This Virtual Hangout will be hosted by the Labor Studies Work-Study team as well as student researchers Lesly Perez, Simran Athwal and Sandra Serrano.
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border
2021-10-20 11:10 - 12:10 | Online
Please join our UCLA Labor Studies community for Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border, an online guest speaker event featuring Fanny García, hosted by labor studies lecturer Virginia Espino.
Fanny Julissa García is an award winning Honduran-American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Oral History from Columbia University. In 2019, she was awarded the Emerging Crisis Fund Award from the Oral History Association for “Separated: An Oral History” that seeks to document the stories of families separated under zero tolerance policy. She currently serves as the lead for the Storytelling Project established by the Women’s Refugee Commission to document the lived experiences of families adversely impacted by immigration policies administered by the United States government.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Zoom – Online
Register HERE.

Week 3 Labor Studies Virtual Hangout - Transitioning Back to Campus
2021-10-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
What has the transition back to campus been like for you? What concerns do you have about the transition away from remote learning? What are you looking forward to this year? Join the labor studies student staff for the first virtual hangout of the year for a conversation surrounding the transition to in person learning.
Date & Time: Monday, October 11th, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
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Labor Studies Welcome 2021
2021-09-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Join us for our Labor Studies Information Session + Student Mixer! Learn about the Labor Studies Major & Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow students!
Date: September 22 from 10am-11am PT
RSVP: https://bit.ly/laborstudieswelcome2021
Zoom link will be emailed to you after submitting this registration form.

Workers and Learners Summer 2021: Research Findings Webinar
2021-09-08 10:00 - 14:00
The UCLA Labor Summer Research Program research team invites you to the Workers and Learners Summer 2021 research findings webinar. Over the past 6-weeks, student researchers collected surveys and interviews about workers and learners’ experiences as they prepare to return to school and work in the fall.
We will review the research together, discuss key issues impacting Workers and Learners, and share strategies and solutions to support students who work and workers who study.
There will be four webinars (times listed below), and you are welcome to join as many sessions as you are able to — similar data will be presented at each webinar but with different students.

Where: Zoom (link will be provided once you RSVP)
When: Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Webinar 1: 10:00am-10:55am
Webinar 2: 11:00am-11:55am
Webinar 3: 12:00pm-12:55pm
Webinar 4: 1:00pm-1:55pm

Link to the RSVP form: https://bit.ly/LSRP2021RSVP

Feel free to reach out to Saba Waheed (swaheed@ucla.edu) and Michele Wong (mwongj09@g.ucla.edu) if you have any questions.Workers and Learners Summer 2021 research findings webinar

Community Scholars 2021 Townhall: Cross-Border Solidarity for Transborder Migrant Justice
2021-06-02 17:00 | Online
Interested in hearing from activists and UCLA students working with migrants and defenders of asylum rights across borders? Join a town hall discussion of the UCLA Community Scholars Program, during the final session of this unique course at UCLA on Wednesday, June 2, 5 pm PT via Zoom.
Community Scholars was launched in 1991 to provide students with an opportunity to work together with leaders from key community and labor organizations across Los Angeles on dynamic participatory research projects. In its 30th program year, Community Scholars decided to focus this year’s cohort class on examining the research, policy, and infrastructure needs of civil society actors responding to the human rights crisis facing global migrants in Baja California.
This event is in partnership with César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies and UCLA Center for Community Engagement.
Join us on zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95002734870

Labor Studies 101: The Global Struggle for Platform Workers’ Rights Beyond Proposition 22
2021-05-27 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
On Thursday, May 27th activists from the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium will join students from the UCLA Labor Studies Program to discuss recent developments in the global struggle for platform workers’ rights.
In California, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have invested more than $200 million to pass Proposition 22 by granting platform companies an exemption from local labor laws to continue the practice of hiring workers without social security, paid sick leave and the right to organize and bargain collectively. The CEOs of corporations, such as UBER, suggested that Proposition 22 would set a precedent for the gig economy at the international level.
However, platform workers have mobilized across the world to promote a more just regulation of this sector. Between February and April 2021, the UK Supreme Court and Italian Labor Inspectorate dictated landmark rulings against Uber, Deliveroo JustEat and Glovo that established the classification of platform workers as employees by providing them with labor rights and social protections. At the same time, the European and Spanish parliaments are discussing groundbreaking law proposals that would require more transparency in the management of data by companies.
Alex Marshall, president of the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), Isabel Chacón from Taxy Project and Riders X Derechos in Spain, Anne Dufresne, co-founder of the first European network of food delivery workers and Paolo Borghi, member of the grassroots union, Deliverance Milano and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Milan, will discuss how the struggle for labor rights in the platform economy has advanced after California passed Proposition 22.
Watch on Facebook Live at 10:300AM PT on May 27th.

Career Conversation: "Lessons from a Recent UCLA Graduate" with Ashley Michel
2021-05-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
What is work life like after graduation? Interested in working for a non-profit organization connected to worker’s rights? Join us for our last virtual hangout of Spring Quarter, Tuesday, May 25th, from 11am-12pm to connect and have a stress-free, informal Q&A with UCLA Labor Studies recent UCLA graduate and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) community organizer Ashley Michel. Let’s share space one more time this year to have a casual conversation about nonprofit sector jobs and get some firsthand work tips and truths from a first-gen professional.
Ashley is a first-generation student who graduated from UCLA in 2021 with a major in Labor Studies and minor in Chicanx & Central American Studies. The granddaughter of Bracero farmworkers, Ashley was born in the California Central Valley and grew up in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where she was raised by a domestic worker. While at UCLA, she was involved in AAP’s Research Rookies, the Labor Summer Research Program, UNITE HERE Local 11, and SLAP. As the former Labor Studies communications student assistant, she created content for our social media and was one of the original masterminds behind Labor Studies Virtual Hangouts! Now, Ashley works as a Community Organizer for LAANE & Reclaim our Schools L.A.
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The Drivers – A Short Play About the Experiences of Uber/Lyft Drivers
2021-05-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 4PM PT as we premiere The Drivers – A Short Play About the Experiences of Uber/Lyft Drivers performed by students from Labor Studies 152, Winter 2021: Work, Social Justice and Arts taught by Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernández.
Play Description
During the height of the COVID 19 pandemic, four Uber drivers meet in the morning at LAX. The play follows each driver throughout the day, culminating in their return to LAX that evening. This play explores the isolation of the American Worker, the shared bonds of their humanity, and the extremes that individuals go to for survival.
This play was developed by the performers through interviews and writing exercises, later compiled by Kyle J McCloskey – an MFA playwright here at UCLA – to create the experience of small moments that make up a life for rideshare drivers during the pandemic.
Performers

Kyle J. McCloskey – UCLA MFA student – playwright and actor
Emely Molina – UCLA Undergraduate student – actor
Samreen Siddiqui – UCLA Undergraduate student – actor
Joel Ojeda – UCLA Undergraduate student – actor
Jacob Skarr – UCLA Undergraduate student – narrator

WATCH HERE

Book talk | Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism with Allyson Brantley
2021-05-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join us for a Book Talk on Tuesday, May 18th at 2pm with Dr. Allyson Brantley, author of Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism. Brewing a Boycott tells the story of one of the longest anti-corporate campaigns in U.S. history, the Coors Boycott. From the 1950s to the 1990s, union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community built a powerful coalition to fight the antiunionism, discrimination, and notoriously conservative politics of Coors Brewing Company. The activists at the heart of this campaign built bridges between divided communities, developed innovative campaign strategies, and refused to give up until the company met their demands. The story highlights the vibrancy of activism in the final decades of the twentieth century and the enduring legacy of that organizing for communities, consumer activists, and corporations today.
Dr. Allyson Brantley teaches, researches, and writes about the history of the United States, particularly in the 20th century. Her interests include the history of consumer culture, social movements and activism, and the US-Mexico borderlands. Dr. Brantley received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2016 and her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Her recent publications include “Borderlands of Work,” a review for the New Labor Forum, and “’Mexico, At Our Very Door’: Prohibition-Era Brewing in the US-Mexico Borderlands,” in the Journal of the West (Summer 2016).
Join us on Facebook Live: facebook.com/UCLALaborStudies

Career Conversations: Careers at the Labor Commissioner's Office with Juliet Ovalle & Jocelyn Lopez
2021-05-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Are you interested in the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Are you wondering how you can apply to this government sector job after graduation? Find out during our next virtual hangout Thursday, May 13th, from 4-5pm, where we connect and have an informal Q&A with UCLA alumni Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Field Enforcement Deputy II Juliet Ovalle. Let’s share space and have a casual conversation about careers with the CA Labor Commissioner’s Office!
Jocelyn is a first generation college student who graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Labor and Workplace Studies. Despite her limited knowledge in the system and struggling to navigate college and build a career, Jocelyn has gone on to receive her Masters in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and is now a Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, under the Judgment Enforcement Unit and she’s also a labor studies lecturer at Los Angeles Trade Tech College. Jocelyn is very thankful to her college counselors and mentors who guided her along the way and look forward to helping those beginning their journey as well.
Juliet was born in Colombia and immigrated to LA at the age of four. As a transfer student at UCLA, 2007-2009, Juliet created student-initiated campaigns that supported campus workers from AFSCME Local 3299, Russell Athletic UCLA divestment campaign in support of Honduran garment workers, and the Save the UCLA Labor Center campaign. After graduating, Juliet obtained an internship with the Community Labor Environmental Action Network (C.L.E.A.N) Car Wash Campaign where she was then hired as a full time organizer and eventually became a lead organizer. Today, Juliet is a Deputy II with the Bureau of Field Enforcement of the California Labor Commissioner’s Office and a proud mom of an energetic five-year-old.
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UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Virtual Events for Transfer Students
2021-05-07 - 2021-05-20 | Online
The Labor Studies Interdepartmental Program offers UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to learn about the workplace and the social, political, and economic forces that influence it. To learn more about our program, we invite you to attend our UCLA Bruin Bound Labor Studies Virtual Events.
Click here to download a PDF of our event calendar with links.

Labor Studies 101: The Pathbreaking Justice for Janitors Campaign
2021-04-22 17:00 - 18:15
On Thursday, April 22nd at 5:00pm, Jono Shaffer and Stephen Lerner will join students of the UCLA Labor Studies program to talk about the pathbreaking campaign Justice for Janitors. The architects behind one of the most important union organizing campaigns of the last few decades will explore how Justice for Janitors expanded into a global movement by providing an important model for the future of organizing.
Jono Shaffer is a Los Angeles based organizer with SEIU. He worked on and helped lead the Justice for Janitors Campaign in Los Angeles.
Stephen Lerner is a labor and community organizer and architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign. He is now working with unions and community groups on Bargaining for Common Good campaigns

Watch the webinar LIVE at facebook.com/uclalaborstudies

Virtual Hangout: "Career Conversations on Labor Law with Patricia Hernandez, J.D."
2021-04-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
What is Labor Law? How do you know when you’ve found your passion? Join us to connect and have a stress-free, informal Q&A with UCLA alumnae, labor attorney, and social justice advocate, Patricia Hernandez. Let’s share space and have a casual conversation about careers this quarter. All, including new first-year and transfer admits, are welcome!
About Patricia: Patricia Hernandez is a labor attorney and union representative for the Union of American Physicians and Dentists, headquartered in California. She’s had an amazing career in the labor movement. As a student at UCLA from 1988-1992, Patricia majored in English with an emphasis in Chicana/o Studies. She was a MECHA activist and leader while at UCLA. She co-founded a women’s committee within MEChA Calmécac. Through MECHA, she became involved in the ground-breaking SEIU Justice for Janitors campaign in LA. Then, while continuing her studies she worked as a social services interpreter and organized her own union of those interpreters, now AFSCME 2700 in Contra Costa County. Patricia has spent 21 years with UAPD and has also run for state assembly as the first Latina to run for state office in Solano and Contra Costa Counties!
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UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Virtual Events
2021-04-03 08:00 - 2021-04-16 17:00 | Online
The Labor Studies Interdepartmental Program offers UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to learn about the workplace and the social, political, and economic forces that influence it. To learn more about our program, we invite you to attend our UCLA Bruin Bound Labor Studies Virtual Events.
Click here to download a PDF of our event calendar with links

Labor Studies Faculty Teach-In: Earners and Learners
2021-03-08 12:00 - 12:45 | Online
The Workers and Learners Faculty and Student Luncheon
Monday, March 08, 2021 from 12:00 pm-12:45pm
Bring your favorite on-the-go snacks and drinks!
Are you an educator interested in learning about your students’ working and learning experiences during the pandemic? Are you a student working while you’re in school? You’re not alone. UCLA Labor Studies student researchers are excited to share some of our findings and recommendations from our recent study, Unseen Costs: The Experiences of Workers and Learners in Los Angeles County along with two complementary briefs on Workers and Learners experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Join graduating Labor Studies majors in an unmuted dialogue!

Learn about the experiences faced by workers and learners
Hear from students about the zoom and lecture techniques that are helping working students
Share your faculty experiences during this challenging time
Ask questions to workers and learners about their needs

Join the meeting: http://bit.ly/faculty-student-lunch

Virtual Hangout: “On the Mindful Road to Grad School”
2021-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Stressing about life after graduation? Ever wonder what Grad School is like and have worries or questions on how to navigate the process? Join us on our next virtual hangout, Monday, March 1st @ noon, where we tackle some of this confusion while also learning how to stay mindful during the process. Let’s share space and have a casual conversation about grad school. All are welcome! Join us and let this be a mindful step towards your Grad School journey!
About Virtual Hangouts: We believe that community finds a way to persist despite physical distances – so join us for our Labor Studies Zoom Hangouts! Ask faculty & staff questions, connect with peers, or just hang out in our informal and casual Zoom sessions.
Open to NEW and CURRENT students.
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Virtual Hangout: "Social Media: Creating, Consuming, and Connecting with Intentionality"
2021-02-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Let’s talk not about how to use social media less, but how to use it more intentionally. Join members of the Labor Studies and Labor Center communications teams as we discuss tips on using social media as a tool to fuel our creativity, make us more productive, and build genuine connections. Learn about our social media strategy and discuss how you can create or consume meaningful content on your own platforms!
About Virtual Hangouts: We believe that community finds a way to persist despite physical distances – so join us for our Labor Studies Zoom Hangouts! Ask faculty & staff questions, connect with peers, or just hang out in our informal and casual Zoom sessions.
Open to NEW and CURRENT students.
Register HERE.

Virtual Hangout: “Self-Love and Radical Confidence”
2021-02-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join our Labor Studies community as we hold space to discuss how we express confidence and how our exploration of self-love and compassion can be a positive and pleasurable experience. This student-led virtual hangout is centered around mindfulness, mutual care, and introspection.
About Virtual Hangouts: We believe that community finds a way to persist despite physical distances – so join us for our Labor Studies Zoom Hangouts! Ask faculty & staff questions, connect with peers, or just hang out in our informal and casual Zoom sessions!
Open to NEW and CURRENT students!
Register HERE.

"We Gone be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers" Webinar
2021-01-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Online
Check out the UCLA Labor Center’s CARE at Work Initiative (Center for Advancing Racial Equity, UCLA CARE) and their new UCLA and LATTC cross-campus course, We Gone Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Worker Organizers. On Thursday, January 28th at 5:30 PM, they will be hosting an orientation for the course and discuss tenets of their hands-on community organizing and movement building curriculum. The orientation will also involve the initial recruitment for its CARE Freedom Summer Internship, a paid internship with the Black Labor Center’s Southern California projects. For more information, reach out to us via email at careatwork.UCLA@gmail.com or @ucla_careatwork on Instagram & Twitter!
To register, click here.

Future of Organizing Under Technological Revolution
2020-12-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many countries around the world have classified food and grocery delivery workers as “essential workers.” While the pandemic has exacerbated the violation of workers’ safety and rights by platform companies, transnational activist networks across Europe, Latin America, Asia and the U.S. have strengthened existing alliances as workers frame their exposure to COVID-19 and the lack of social protections as a common ground for collective action.
As part of this panel, activists from Madrid, São Paulo and Los Angeles will discuss the experience of platform workers in different geographies of the pandemic. We will explore how labor is organizing to respond to the technological transformation of capitalism at a time of a global, political and economic crisis.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
The webinar will be broadcasted live on the UCLA Labor Studies Facebook Page.
