Week 9 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with Policy Analyst Tracie Sanchez, '13
2021-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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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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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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.
Register HERE.

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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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.
REGISTER HERE

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 are not part of your family’: Domestic Workers and the International Struggle for Labor Rights and Recognition
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:15 | 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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Week 8 Virtual Hangout - Meet the Professor: Kendrick Roberson
2022-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
Introducing Kendrick Roberson, the instructor for this spring’s LBR STD M115/AF AMER M115 We Gone Be Alright: Developing the Next Generation of Black Organizers course! In this “Meet the Professor” event, Kendrick will share his journey of becoming a young leader in the field of labor justice and why he believes it is critical for more young people to get involved. This presentation will be followed up by a 10 minute Q & A led by Semi Cole, Public Program Analyst at the Center for Advancing Racial Equity (CARE) at Work Initiative, and a 5-minute announcement regarding class recruitment afterwards.
Guest Speaker:
Kendrick Roberson is an educator, researcher, and organizer with unique professional experiences and a strong commitment to racial and gender equity. With 3 Master of Science degrees, Professor Roberson has taught social science classes at Pepperdine University and is the Director of the USC Predoctoral Summer Institute for First Generation and Diverse Scholars. He is the Chairman of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National YOUNG Committee where he leads training for young professionals within the union at the national level. He has also served as a legislative and political coordinator for AFGE. Roberson also serves as the Chair of City of Carson’s rent control board, and is an Air Force veteran.
Guest Host:
Semi Cole serves the Center for Advancing Racial Equity (CARE) at Work Initiative as a Public Program Analyst. In his role, Semi utilizes his passion for public affairs and community organizing to push forward the Center’s research, policy, and programmatic priorities.
Semi brings extensive experience in higher education advocacy and policy research as well as grassroots organizing, strategic partnership development, and project management. Currently, Semi manages CARE’s student organizing class and Freedom Fellowship, where he puts his talents towards CARE’s work in building a school-to-movement pathway, sowing the seeds for the next generation of black organizers.
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UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Events 2022
2022-04-04 00:00 - 2022-04-21 23:59 | CA
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.

Week 2 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with Labor Studies Alumni: Julio Chavez, Policy Fellow for the National Hispanic Media Coalition
2022-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
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 and is a proud first-gen Latino from South Central Los Angeles. He recently served as an intern for the UCLA Labor Center, where he worked as a student researcher, assisting in several community-related projects. Previously, Julio has held positions with various community-oriented non-profits and has worked towards bridging what he has learned in the classroom to his experiences growing up in Los Angeles. He holds two degrees from UCLA in labor studies and Chicano Studies with minors in education studies and civic engagement and social change.
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"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

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.

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: 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

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

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

No Sweat reUNION
2022-04-30 12:00 - 17:00 | CA
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

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.

UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Events 2022
2022-05-09 08:00 - 2022-05-17 17:00 | Online

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.

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 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

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 | CA
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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Symposium on Academic Labor
2022-10-31 12:30 - 13:45 | CA
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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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.

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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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!

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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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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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.
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