Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Behind the Scenes/Unheard Voices of the Strike
2023-05-04 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Public Affairs 1246
In the Fall of 2022, graduate student workers from the University of California participated in one of the largest strikes in higher education history. As a result, student workers learned valuable lessons about feeding and sustaining one another on and off the picket lines.
Join us for a panel discussion about the work that often goes unrecognized behind the scenes with opening remarks by Rosie Stockton and Da In Choi.

Date: Thursday, May 4th
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Location: Public Affairs 1246

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May Day 2023
2023-05-01 16:00 - 18:30
Join the May Day Coalition for the 2023 Los Angeles May Day March! This year’s theme is “Solidarity is Power: Right to Unionize, Right to Strike, Right to Housing, & Right to Citizenship.” The event will bring people from all walks of life to stand in solidarity with one another and raise awareness of labor, housing, and immigration struggles across our city and the nation.
May 1st is International Workers Day or May Day. Throughout the world, communities not only dedicate this day to honor the struggles of workers, but they also recognize other working-class issues. Each year, the May Day Coalition in Los Angeles organizes one of the many marches which gather thousands of people, organizations, and supporters to bring awareness to the intersecting struggles of the working-class people of Los Angeles and the world. This year’s May Day march and rally theme will be “Solidarity is Power”: Right to Unionize, Right to Strike, Right to Housing, & Right to Citizenship. You can find more information about the event, including the program, map, and meeting spots if you want to join from downtown LA, public transportation info, checklist of what to bring… HERE.
DATE: May 1, 2023
TIME: We will meet 4 PM. The march begins at 5 PM.
MARCH START LOCATION: Southwest corner of Olympic & Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Please fill out this google form in case you would like to join our Labor@UCLA contingent in downtown LA for May Day. We have confirmed a 50-passenger bus (leaving from UCLA to May Day and back) for students from our Labor Studies courses and allied undergraduate and graduate students to attend. The sign-up list for the bus is first come, first serve, with students in Labor Studies 10 given priority.

Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Danette Garcia
2023-04-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche Hall 3164
Topic: Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Danette Garcia, LA City Attorney Director of Community & Government Affairs and UCLA Labor Studies alum
Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 4 PM
Location: Bunche Hall 3164
Join us for a Coffee Chat with LA City Attorney Director of Community & Government Affairs and UCLA Labor Studies alum, Danette Garcia and moderated by Micaela Aragon, Labor Studies major and communications work-study. This will be an informal space for students to ask questions about her position, her journey to working for the LA City attorney, experience working for campaigns, and how Labor Studies played a role in her journey to where she is today.
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Garment Workers Speak Out!
2023-04-27 14:00 - 16:00
When the pandemic hit, US retailers canceled clothing orders abroad, resulting in millions of garment workers being laid off without pay or severance. On April 27, Chhorpesal Chhom and Sreymich Hai – who were fired from Hulu Garment factory in Cambodia, where they sewed products for Amazon and Adidas – will visit the UCLA campus to speak about the wage theft and retaliation they endured, and the need for accountability from major brands. Come speak directly with workers who produce your clothing and to learn about how you can support garment workers in their struggle for justice.
When: April 27, 2pm
Where: UCLA campus (RSVP for info) – livestream on zoom
RSVP: nikesteals.com/ucla

Labor Speaker Series | Critical Industrial Relations: centering social identity in our understanding of the employment relationship
2023-04-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Public Affairs 5391
Topic: Critical Industrial Relations: centering social identity in our understanding of the employment relationship with Tamara Lee
Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM PT
Location: Public Affairs 5391 (in-person)
How does our understanding of employment practices and worker responses deepen or shift when we take a critical lens centered in the counternarratives of marginalized workers? Discussing her work on racialized worker control at Amazon’s fulfillment centers and contemporary uprisings for social and economic justice, Professor Lee explores the opportunities for theory and praxis when we challenge traditional colorblind approaches to understand labor law, employer tactics and worker responses to injustice inside and outside of the workplace.
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UCLA homecoming celebration for California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
2023-03-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Collins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center
The UCLA Labor Center and the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work (CARE at Work) invite you to a UCLA homecoming celebration for California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas.
Prior to being sworn in to represent California’s 28th Senate District, Senator Smallwood-Cuevas worked at the UCLA Labor Center for 15 years where she directed the CARE at Work project and co-founded the LA Black Worker Center, the country’s first Black worker center.
The LA Black Worker Center serves as a model for Black worker centers across the country that increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ Black workers through action and unionization.
Join us to celebrate Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, an educator, labor organizer, and community advocate who has dedicated her life to economic and racial justice, and has advanced research, education, and community empowerment over the course of her career.
RSVP Now
Please RSVP by March 8th

Date:
March 10, 2023
Time:
1:00 – 2:00 PM PST
Location:
Collins Alumni Conference Room at UCLA James West Alumni Center
325 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking in Structure 8

For questions or concerns:
Contact Semi Cole at careatwork.UCLA@gmail.com and include the subject line “Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas Celebration.”

Information Session: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner's Office and Department of Industrial Relations
2023-03-07 11:30 - 13:00 | CSRC Library- Haines 144
Topic: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations
Date: Tuesday, March 7th
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm PT
Location: Haines Hall Rm. 144
Join us on March 7th, 2022 with California State Labor Commissioner, Lilia Garcia-Brower for an in-person information session on career opportunities and pathways within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations.
LUNCH PROVIDED*
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Labor Speaker Series | "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" Book Talk
2023-03-01 15:30 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Topic: Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA with Nadia Y. Kim
Date: Wednesday, March 1st
Time: 3:30 PM – 5 PM PT
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall (in-person) and on Zoom
“Refusing Death” examines race, class, gender and citizenship with respect to the growing social phenomenon of marginalized and unauthorized immigrants – especially women and youth – making political inroads by way of grassroots activism, at times, sidestepping the need for formal political channels. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, and documents analysis of Asian American and Latin@ environmental justice activism in the industrial-port belt of Los Angeles, she finds that these mostly female immigrant activists view their work as much more than an effort to spare their children’s lungs from the gray plumes of cargo ships and oil refineries; they are also redefining notions of politics, community, and citizenship in the face of America’s nativist racism and its system of class injustice, defined by disproportionate pollution and neglected schools, surveillance/deportation, and political marginalization.
By inventively dovetailing all of these dimensions, the women show that they are highly conscious of how environmental and educational harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions; hence, they center embodied and affective strategies to uniquely challenge the neoliberal state’s neglect and betrayal and, ultimately, to refuse death.
Register for Zoom webinar: https://bit.ly/Kim-Webinar
RSVP for reception: https://bit.ly/4033mp6

Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program
2023-03-01 13:30 - 14:30 | Public Affairs 2284
Topic: Labor Studies Coffee Chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program
Date: Wednesday, March 1
Time: 1:30 – 2:30 PM PT
Location: Public Affairs 2284
Join us on Wednesday, March 1 between 1:30 – 12:30 p.m. for a coffee chat with Chris Zepeda-Millán, Chair of the UCLA Labor Studies Program. This is a casual informal event to allow Labor Studies students to connect with the Chair and the program overall.
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We Gon' Be Alright Class Virtual Open House
2023-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Topic: We Gon’ Be Alright Class Virtual Open House
Date: Wednesday, February 22nd
Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm PT
Location: Zoom
UCLA’s Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity (CARE) at Work in collaboration with the Labor Studies Department is excited to announce our Virtual Open House on Wednesday, February 22nd, 4:00 – 5:00 PM for CARE’s cross-campus course, We Gon’ Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers.

Join us as we dive into the importance of labor and organizing in the greater movement for Black Worker Justice and explore new program partnerships (summer internship opportunities) offered by UCLA’s CARE.
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Labor Speaker Series | “How To Make a Revolution: A Conversation About the Past, Present, and Future of Radical Labor” Book Talk
2023-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Bunche Hall 10383
Topic: How To Make a Revolution: A Conversation About the Past, Present, and Future of Radical Labor with Christina Heatherton
Date: Tuesday, February 14
Time: 10 AM – 12 PM PT
Location: 10383 Bunche Hall (in-person) and on Zoom
Join Dr. Heatherton for a conversation about her book and what lessons it may contain for contemporary labor and movement organizing strategy. The Mexican Revolution was a global event that catalyzed international radicals in unexpected sites and struggles. From art collectives and farm worker strikes to prison “universities,” Arise! Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (UC Press, 2022) considers how disparate revolutionary traditions merged in unanticipated alliances.
Moderated by: Maga Miranda, Doctoral Candidate in Chicana/o and Central American Studies.
ZOOM RSVP: bit.ly/laborspeaker-heatherton
In-Person RSVP:

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Information Session: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner's Office and Department of Industrial Relations (Cancelled)
2022-12-01 11:30 - 12:45 | Haines Hall 279
Topic: Career Opportunities at the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations
Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 11:30am – 12:45pm PT
Location: 279 Haines Hall
Join us on December 1st, 2022 with California State Labor Commissioner, Lilia Garcia-Brower for an in-person information session on career opportunities and pathways within the Labor Commissioner’s Office and Department of Industrial Relations.
LUNCH PROVIDED*
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Symposium on Academic Labor: Campus Workers Campaigns for Living Wages and Dignity at UC has been canceled.
2022-11-16 12:30 - 13:45 | Fowler A139
Topic: Symposium on Academic Labor: Campus Workers Campaigns for Living Wages and Dignity at UC
Date: Wednesday, November 16
Time: 12:30pm – 1:45pm PT
Location: Fowler A139

Organizers and member leaders from AFSCME 3299–the union that represents 27,000 service and clerical workers at the University of California–will discuss their recent campaigns for living wages, dignity at work, workplace safety, and against UC attempts to outsource union jobs to anti-union contractors.
Join us on Wednesday, Nov. 16 between 12:30–1:45 p.m. for another Symposium on Academic Labor event hosted by Trevor Griffey in his LBR STD 188: Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and Public Good class.
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Summer Internship Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate UCLA Students at U.S. GAO: Information Session
2022-11-15 13:30 - 14:30 | Online
Topic: Summer Internship Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate UCLA Students at U.S. GAO
Date: Tuesday, November 15
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm PT
Location: Zoom

The U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency within the legislative branch that advises Congress about ways to make the federal government more efficient, effective, ethical, equitable, and responsive. Join us in this information session on summer internship opportunities for UCLA Graduate and Undergraduate Students at the U.S. GAO next summer!

To RSVP: log in to Handshake and search for “U.S. Government Accountability Office Info Session” on November 15, 2022.
To join the meeting: CLICK HERE!

Labor Speaker Series | “Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras” Book Talk
2022-11-10 13:00 - 14:30 | UCLA Young Research Library, Presentation Room, Room 11348
Topic: “Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras” Book Talk
Date: Thursday, November 10
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm PT
Location: UCLA Young Research Library, Presentation Room, Room 11348

Join us for a Book Talk with Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, author of Roots of Resistance: A Story of Gender, Race, and Labor on the North Coast of Honduras.

On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in English, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954 and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor movement.

Drawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival research, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda highlights the complexities of transnational company hierarchies, gender and race relations, and labor organizing that led to the banana workers strike and how these dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today.

Guest Speaker: Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Latina/o Transnational Studies, Pitzer College

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Death and Dying in Diaspora: Book Talk with Allan Isaac (Rutgers University)
2022-11-08 16:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Bunche Hall 10383
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
10383 Bunche Hall
In his new book Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Allan Isaac examines how contracted service labor performed by Filipinos in the Philippines, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States generates vital affects, multiple networks, and other life-worlds as much as it disrupts and dislocates human relations.Affective labor and time are re-articulated in a capacious archive of storytelling about the Filipino labor diaspora in fiction, musical performance, ethnography, and documentary film. Exploring these cultural practices, Filipino Time traces other ways of sensing, making sense of, and feeling time with others, by weaving narratives of place and belonging out of the hostile but habitable textures of labor-time.
Signaling his current research project in this talk, Isaac explores live-streamed funeral vigils, a technological practice made necessary by Filipino diasporic life, to highlight two Tagalog concept-words that map other ways to generate ecologies of communality: pakiramdam (literally, to make oneself felt, or to feel a presence), affective engagement without immediate proximity; andkapiling, to be in someone’s proximity or vicinity without interaction between two parties. Migrant subjects harness time and the imagination in their creative, life-making capacities to make communal worlds out of one steeped in the temporalities and logics of capital.
Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English and Associate Humanities Dean at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NJ. He specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues around migration, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His first book American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor. He has taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. His current research focuses on death and dying in the Filipino diaspora.
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Department of Asian American Studies. With support from the Asian American Studies Center, Office of Instructional Services, Center for the Study of Women/Barbara Streisand Center, UCLA Labor Center, and Labor Studies Program.
RSVP HERE
Following the talk, Professor Isaac will conduct a short workshop with graduate students. Students can sign up for the graduate workshop here and upload a 2-3 page project abstract.

Symposium on Academic Labor
2022-10-31 12:30 - 13:45
Topic: Symposium on Academic Labor
Date: Monday, October 31st and Wednesday, November 2
Time: 12:30pm – 1:45pm PT
Location: Various

Why are the majority of college teachers low wage temps, and how can academic workers organize to fight back? Representatives from UAW 2865 and Higher Education Labor United will answer these and other questions about how labor activism on college campuses can contribute to the development of a more militant labor movement in the U.S.

Join us on Monday, Oct. 31 and Wednesday, Nov. 2 between 12:30–1:45 p.m. for a Symposium on Academic Labor hosted by Trevor Griffey in his LBR STD 188: Labor and Public Higher Education: Campus Workers, Working Students, and Public Good class.
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Labor Speaker Series | “Is Formalization the Answer? Is Informality the Problem?” Waste Picker Rights Policy in São Paolo and Bogotá with Manuel Rosaldo
2022-10-13 15:00 - 16:30
Topic: “Is Formalization the Answer? Is Informality the Problem?” Waste Picker Rights Policy in São Paolo and Bogotá
Date: Thursday, October 13th
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm PT
Location: Luskin School of Public Affairs Faculty Lounge, Room 5391

Under what circumstances does the formalization of informal jobs lead to pro-worker outcomes, and when might formalization intensify workers’ exploitation or deprive them of work altogether? Drawing on 24 months of ethnographic field research, this presentation analyzes two ambitious efforts to integrate informal waste pickers into formal waste management. This research finds that formalization policies in Bogotá, Colombia elevated the incomes, conditions, and voice of thousands of waste pickers, whereas parallel efforts in the seemingly more favorable context of São Paulo, Brazil did not. Ultimately, these differential outcomes hinged on waste pickers’ levels of power to shape policy design and implementation.

Guest Speaker: Manuel Rosaldo, Assistant Professor of Labor Relations and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Labor Summer Research Program 2022 Final Presentations: Workers and Learners in Los Angeles County
2022-08-17 10:00 - 13:55 | Online
August 17, 2022
10:00AM–1:55PM PT
Online

This summer, student researchers collected surveys and interviews about how working students navigate barriers and opportunities in fulfilling their educational, career and work goals. 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, and you are welcome to join as many sessions as you’re able to – similar data will be presented at each webinar but with different student teams.

Webinar Times/Student Groups:

Webinar 1: 10:00-10:55 AM – Anthony Camacho, Jessica Birrueta-Carranza, Kimia Ranjbar, Luz Silva, Nicklas Singh, Reni Araque, Riley Araujo, Otis Wheeler
Webinar 2: 11:00-11:55 AM – Aucileia Rosa, Guadalupe Gonzalez, Gyasti Averia, Iliana Levine, Qianyi Loo, Sarah Huang, Tiffany Ta
Webinar 3: 12:00-12:55 PM – Brenda Martinez, Cecilia Gutierrez, Daniel Ray, Jois Talla, Judith Vazquez-Oropeza, Promise Ogunleye, Regina Estrada, Victor Rodriguez
Webinar 4: 1:00-1:55 PM – Alex Valdivia, Angie Trujillo, Clarissa Arjona, Emily Valdez, Kenia Pino, Tanaz Toufighi

RSVP HERE

Week 8 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with UCLA Student Organizers: Bry Gonzalez & Jazmin Rivera
2022-05-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
How do you get involved in the labor movement as a student? Join us for a conversation about organizing at the grassroots level with labor studies majors Bryanna (Bry) Gonzalez and Jazmin Rivera from the Student Labor Advocacy Project (SLAP) at UCLA.
Guest Speakers:
Bryanna (Bry) Gonzalez is a 4th year Labor Studies major with minors in Chicanx and Central American Studies and Social Thought. They are a proud first-gen student and have worked with the Labor Studies program for 3 years, and is one of the current interns with AFSCME 3299. They have been organizing with SLAP since 2019 and hope to continue once they graduate in the spring.
Jazmin Rivera (she/her) is a 4th year Labor Studies and Political Science double major with a minor in Chicanx studies. Currently, Jazmin is one of the AFSCME 3299 interns as well as SLAP’s Labor Solidarity Secretary. As a struggling student worker, Jazmin found community in student labor organizing and hopes to continue to be involved in the labor movement once she graduates in the spring.
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Labor and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin America
2022-05-12 10:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
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 México
Carolina Hevia, Unión de Trabajadores de Plataformas UNIDAPP, Colombia
Emilse Icandrie, Sindicato de Base de Trabajadores de Reparto por Aplicación SiTraRepa, Argentina
Commentator and Moderator:
Paolo Marinaro, Solidarity Center, Ciudad de México

Panel 2: 12 – 1:30 PM – Agricultural Work, Pandemic and Migration in Latin America
Speakers:
Gustavo Gatica López, Centro de Investigación en Cultura y Desarrollo
Universidad Estatal a Distancia, Costa Rica
Kim Sánchez Saldaña, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México
Marcela Tapia Ladino, Universidad Arturo Prat, Chile
Moderator:
Rubén Hernández-León, Latin American Institute, UCLA

Register HERE.

UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Events 2022
2022-05-09 08:00 - 2022-05-17 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 Events for 2022. Click here to download a PDF of our event calendar with links.

May Day 2022
2022-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Olympic Blvd. and Broadway
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 Broadway to Grand Park. Join us for an in-person celebration of immigrant workers’ essential importance in this country!
Learn more HERE.

No Sweat reUNION
2022-04-30 12:00 - 17:00
Join us for a No Sweat reUNION celebrating the past and future of organizing immigrant workers!
DATE: Sat. April 30th – 12-5pm
LOCATION: UCLA Lawson Worker Justice Center – 675 S. Park View, Los Angeles, CA 90057
2pm Panel feat. Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su and California State Senator Maria Elena Durazo.
Share your memories – together, we will create a collective scrapbook of the garment workers’ struggle. We invite you to bring old photos, flyers, keepsakes, and testimony from your years in the movement, which will be digitized and returned. Learn from the past – we’ll provide lunch and encourage discussion between veterans of the movement and activists, advocates, and organizers working in the field today.
Change the Future – organizers and activists both past and present will share their experiences and how you can get involved in the fight against sweatshops today.
This is an in-person event, but a livestream of the panel will be available via the Labor Center’s Facebook page. Contributions to the scrapbook can also be made by RSVPing at https://bit.ly/nosweatreunion.
4/25 Update:
We can’t wait to see you this Saturday at our No Sweat reUNION!
A reminder that lunch will be served starting at noon and our 2pm panel discussion will be streamed LIVE on the Labor Center’s Facebook page.
This event will be outside and masking encouraged.
Street parking is readily available and there is also a parking lot near by (Athena Parking at 611 S Carondelet St).
Looking forward to seeing you! RSVP at: https://bit.ly/nosweatreunion

The Relation Between the Mexican Left and the Chicano Movement during the 60s and 70s: The Political Legacy of Bert Corona ﻿
2022-04-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid
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 Higbie, Professor, UCLA History and Labor Studies

Moderated by UCLA Labor Center Project Director Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

This event will be in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.
RSVP HERE

Worker and Union Solidarity with China: Why and How?
2022-04-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
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 created new challenges for workers and unions. This webinar explores the value of worker-to-worker relationships despite those conflicts — indeed, made more important in a climate of anti-Asian racism and protectionism.

Moderated by Joey Hartman, past president, Vancouver & District Labour Council and Xinying Hu, SFU Labour Studies Program.
RSVP HERE

Book Talk: La Izquierda Mexicana del Siglo XX
2022-04-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid
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 of the Mexican left in the 20th century.

These works are made up of the testimonies of some of the main protagonists of the movements and the contributions of very prominent Mexican specialists.

Speaker (book series editor): Ing. Arturo Martínez Nateras, México, Author
Moderated by UCLA Labor Center Project Director Gaspar Rivera-Salgado.

This event will be in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation.
RSVP HERE

Book Talk with Cynthia Cranford, Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances
2022-04-21 17:00 - 18:15 | Hybrid
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 Tensions and Creating Alliances (Cornell University Press, 2020), this talk examines the tensions and possibilities for alliances that are essential for understanding, and challenging, inequalities in homecare. How can we arrange home care to minimize tensions and maximize alliances? The book addresses this question by comparing how four government-funded programs differ in the way they arrange home care. Focusing on the most personal in-home support, that is paid help with daily activities like bathing and eating, the book’s analysis rests on over 300 interviews that reveal how a variety of players shape the conditions of home care service and work in unique contexts. This talk will compare two of the cases illuminating the limits and possibilities of coalitions for flexibility with security.
Dr. Cranford studies inequalities of gender, labour and migration, and collective efforts to resist them. Her most recent research project is a
comparative study of home care showcased in Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances, published in 2020 by
Cornell University’s ILR Press and co-winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements Section. Dr. Cranford is also the co-author of Self-employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions published by McGill-Queens University Press (2005) and her work has been published in several journals including Critical Sociology, Gender & Society, Gender, Work and Organisation, Just Labour, Social Problems, Work, Employment and Society, and in several edited volumes.
This event will be held in person at Haines Hall A25, 375 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA and broadcasted live via Zoom.
To join us for the Zoom broadcast of the event, please register HERE.

Book Talk with Victor Narro, The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity
2022-04-20 12:15 - 13:15 | Online
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 from which we can deepen our solidarity with each other. The work for justice is filled with the values attributed to spirituality – love, compassion, empathy for those in need, and a lifetime commitment to bring justice into their lives. His book calls us to integrate that inner spiritual core into our work to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, caring, and sustainable. To be an activist for justice is to love humanity and all of creation.
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and UCLA Labor Studies.
RSVP HERE.

"Change Is What We Do" UNITE HERE Local 11 Archive Public Release
2022-04-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Online
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 to life.
UNITE-HERE Local 11 traces its origins to the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International union founded in 1891 and has been active in Southern California since the 1930s. Local 11 partnered with other labor and community organizations to play a key role in reviving the Los Angeles labor movement during the 1990s and 2000s.
RSVP HERE
