May Day 2022
2022-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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.

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
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
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.
ZOOM RSVP: bit.ly/laborspeaker-heatherton
In-Person RSVP:

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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 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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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

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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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.”

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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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 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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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.

Behind the Scenes/Unheard Voices of the Strike
2023-05-04 17:00 - 18:30 | 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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Film Screening: Dignidad
2023-05-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)
We are excited to invite you to a special film screening of “Dignidad: California Domestic Workers’ Journey for Justice!” This documentary follows domestic workers as they organize for workplace protections during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join us as we celebrate the victories, reflect on lessons learned, and gear up to continue the fight for domestic worker health and safety.
Date: May 24th @ 6 PM
Location: Transfer Student Center (Kerckhoff 128)
RSVP @ bit.ly/film-dignidad
For any questions, feel free to reach out to us at:
Neome Astudillo: neomegethsemane@g.ucla.edu
William Dang Nguyen: wdangnguyen@g.ucla.edu
Abeeha Hussain: abeehahussain@ucla.edu

Labor @ UCLA Research Summit
2023-05-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Public Affairs 2343
This event is part of Undergraduate Research Week, where students from all disciplines gather to share their innovative and impactful work with the UCLA community at events such as the Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase.
Selected students for this summit will present past or current work developed for a capstone, honors thesis, or other Labor Studies and related classes.
Date: Friday, May 26th
Time: 11 AM – 1 PM
Location: Public Affairs 2343 / Zoom
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Labor Speaker Series | Labor and the Politics of Inflation, Past and Present
2023-06-05 14:00 - 15:30
Topic: Labor and the Politics of Inflation, Past and Present with Dr. Samir Sonti
Date: Monday, June 5th
Time: 2 PM – 3:30 PM PT
Location: Chicano Studies Research Library/Zoom
*Zoom information will be sent out in reminder email after you RSVP
Join us with Dr. Samir Sonti to discuss how the arrival of inflation during the pandemic has spurred considerable debate over both the causes of rising prices and the optimal means of achieving price stability. In the mid-twentieth century, inflation stood as one of the most contested political issues, and it was one with which the labor movement was, by necessity, deeply engaged.
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Writing Workshop for Labor Studies: A Reading and Celebration
2023-06-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Rolfe Hall 3129
Please join us for a celebration featuring Labor Studies students reading their original work, including poetry, song, memoir, fiction, and research! This event is part of LBRSTD 188-4, Writing Workshop for Labor Studies, a creative writing class for Labor Studies majors, Labor Studies minors, and other interested students.
Special Guest: Author Saba Waheed, Research Director, UCLA Labor Center
Date: Tuesday, June 6th, 6:30-8:00 pm.
Location: Rolfe Hall 3129 / Zoom
Refreshments will be provided by Labor Studies. Hope to see you there!
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Labor Studies Internship Capstone Presentations
2023-06-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Moore Hall 1003
Join us for our showcase of research completed by Labor Studies majors who took the internship capstone in the 2023 Winter/Spring quarters.
Date: June 9th, 2023, 11 AM – 1 PM
Location: Moore Hall 1003 / Zoom

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IRLE Public Talk with Labor Center Director Candidate John Logan
2023-09-27 10:30 - 12:00 | 4320 Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Dear IRLE Community,
Please join us for the first of three campus visits by candidates for the position of UCLA Labor Center Director. Each applicant will give a talk and lead a conversation on their vision for the future of the Labor Center. We encourage staff, community members, and affiliated faculty to join us and provide feedback on each candidate.
This provides our community the opportunity to interact with prospective applicants and truly get a sense of what each applicant envisions should they be selected as the next Labor Center Director. The public talks will be thirty minutes long, followed by thirty-minute Q&A sessions. We hope you consider joining us next week as these public talks begin. RSVP details for our first public talk are listed below:
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023
10:00 am – Registration
10:30 am – Public Talk Begins
11:00 am – Q&A
11:30 am – Community and Board Members Engagement
Location:
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Campus
337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Room 4320
RSVP HERE
Live Zoom Option:
https://ucla.in/3LzqExa
Meeting ID: 951 7496 8724
Passcode: [REDACTED]
John Logan on the Future of the UCLA Labor Center

John Logan is Professor and Director of Labor Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and a visiting research associate at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where he is also a member of the external advisory board. Under his leadership, the Labor Studies program has taught over 25,000 SFSU undergraduates and placed several dozen Labor Studies majors in union jobs at the state, national, and international levels. Between 2000-2009, he was an assistant and associate professor of comparative labor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he convened the master’s programs in International Employment Relations and European Labor Studies. He was also Research Director at the UC Berkeley Labor Center from 2009-2010 and a postdoc at the UCLA Institute for Labor and Employment from 2001-2003. Logan has published widely on unions, labor law, and employer opposition to unionization, both in the United State and internationally, including, most recently, several articles on the high-profile union campaigns at Starbucks and Amazon. His publications have appeared in Industrial Relations, British Journal of Industrial Relations, New Labor Forum, Journal of Labor Research, International Labor and Working-Class History, International Union Rights, Dissent, Advances in Labor and Industrial Relations, and Work Organization, Labor, and Globalization, State of California Labor, and many other journals. Logan has worked extensively with state, national and global union federations over the past twenty years and has conducted union research in countries ranging from India to Malawi to Paraguay. He has also published over 200 opinion columns in major publications – including The Hill, The Conversation, The Guardian, Associated Press, Reuters, Politico, San Francisco Chronicle, Jacobin, and many others – and he has been quoted and interviewed on labor issues in state, national, and international media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Reuters, The Guardian, CNN, NPR, BBC News, Bloomberg TV, thousands of times.
During this public talk John will outline his vision for the growth and development of the UCLA Labor Center as a nexus of labor scholarship, innovation, and debate over the next 5-10 years. He believes the labor movement is at a particularly promising juncture, especially in California, and the UCLA Labor Center has unique potential to play a key leadership role in bringing together academics, practitioners, students, and the community to advance labor education and research. He will discuss methods such as the expansion of the Labor Studies program, direction of applied research projects, increased public programming, and heightened engagement with the university, labor movement, and community, including through student participation in internships and research, by which such goals can be attained. He will outline his plan to further establish the UCLA Labor Center as the premier national institution for labor scholarship and how that will attract a diverse, dedicated, and dynamic group of individuals to the Labor Center as students, speakers, and instructors; uplift California workers and unions; and position the Labor Center as a sought-after and expert contributor to discourse about labor and workers’ rights across the state, nationally, and globally

IRLE Public Talk with Labor Center Director Candidate Francisco Garcia
2023-09-29 10:30 - 12:00 | 4320 Public Affairs, 337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, 90095, United States
Dear IRLE Community,
Please join us for the second of three campus visits by candidates for the position of UCLA Labor Center Director. Each applicant will give a talk and lead a conversation on their vision for the future of the Labor Center. We encourage staff, community members, and affiliated faculty to join us and provide feedback on each candidate.
This provides our community the opportunity to interact with prospective applicants and truly get a sense of what each applicant envisions should they be selected as the next Labor Center Director. The public talks will be thirty minutes long, followed by thirty-minute Q&A sessions. We hope you consider joining us next week as these public talks begin. RSVP details for our second public talk are listed below:
Friday, Sept. 29, 2023
10:00 am – Registration
10:30 am – Public Talk Begins
11:00 am – Q&A
11:30 am – Community and Board Members Engagement
Location:
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA Campus
337 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Room 4320
RSVP HERE
Live Zoom Option:
https://ucla.in/48x6az1
Meeting ID: 971 6690 5917
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Francisco Garcia on Nonviolence and Social Movements & the Future of the UCLA Labor Center

Francisco García is a PhD Candidate in Theological Studies, Ethics and Action at Vanderbilt University and serves on the leadership team of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School as a Doctoral Fellow. He also serves as an Assistant Chaplain for Justice Ministries at St. Augustine’s Chapel in Nashville. He has a BA and MA in Latin American Studies and an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA where he focused on community development and labor issues; his MA thesis explored collaborative strategies for unions and worker centers in Los Angeles. Francisco is a seasoned organizer, educator, and leader in community, labor, faith, and academic settings. In the labor movement Francisco worked in various organizing, negotiating, and leadership capacities with workers in both the public and private sectors with SEIU, UAW, AFSCME and Warehouse Workers United. His organizing commitments led him to attend seminary at the Claremont School of Theology (obtaining a Master of Divinity) and he was later ordained an Episcopal priest; in this capacity he has provided pastoral, administrative, and justice-focused leadership at various parishes in Southern California, most recently as the Rector of Holy Faith Episcopal Church in Inglewood. He served many years on the board of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and as a clergy leader with Faith in Action group L.A. Voice. He currently serves on the national advisory committee of Bargaining for the Common Good and the board of the Interreligious Network for Worker Solidarity. Francisco’s dissertation explores the role of faith among Latinx/immigrant workers organizing for justice in their workplaces and communities.
For his public talk, Francisco will share about his experience, insights, and vision for leading the UCLA Labor Center into the foreseeable future. Drawing upon the decades-long legacy and strength of the Labor Center in labor education, research, policy, organizing and movement building, Francisco will discuss the current labor landscape, and offer his assessment of the challenges and opportunities that the Labor Center and its many partners have to further advance and sustain an intersectional labor justice agenda in Los Angeles, California, and beyond. As part of this conversation, Francisco will share ideas for deepening the Labor Center’s important work around nonviolence and social movements, and the role of community, interfaith, and labor coalitions in this effort. Francisco will emphasize a collaborative, relational, and strategic approach to supporting the staff and programs of the Labor Center as it works within the context of a large public university system and ever-changing social, political, and economic contexts.
