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

Watch the webinar LIVE at facebook.com/uclalaborstudies

UCLA Bruin Bound: Labor Studies Virtual Events for Transfer Students
2021-05-07 - 2021-05-20 | Online
The Labor Studies Interdepartmental Program offers UCLA undergraduates an opportunity to learn about the workplace and the social, political, and economic forces that influence it. To learn more about our program, we invite you to attend our UCLA Bruin Bound Labor Studies Virtual Events.
Click here to download a PDF of our event calendar with links.

Career Conversations: Careers at the Labor Commissioner's Office with Juliet Ovalle & Jocelyn Lopez
2021-05-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Are you interested in the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Are you wondering how you can apply to this government sector job after graduation? Find out during our next virtual hangout Thursday, May 13th, from 4-5pm, where we connect and have an informal Q&A with UCLA alumni Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Field Enforcement Deputy II Juliet Ovalle. Let’s share space and have a casual conversation about careers with the CA Labor Commissioner’s Office!
Jocelyn is a first generation college student who graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Labor and Workplace Studies. Despite her limited knowledge in the system and struggling to navigate college and build a career, Jocelyn has gone on to receive her Masters in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and is now a Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, under the Judgment Enforcement Unit and she’s also a labor studies lecturer at Los Angeles Trade Tech College. Jocelyn is very thankful to her college counselors and mentors who guided her along the way and look forward to helping those beginning their journey as well.
Juliet was born in Colombia and immigrated to LA at the age of four. As a transfer student at UCLA, 2007-2009, Juliet created student-initiated campaigns that supported campus workers from AFSCME Local 3299, Russell Athletic UCLA divestment campaign in support of Honduran garment workers, and the Save the UCLA Labor Center campaign. After graduating, Juliet obtained an internship with the Community Labor Environmental Action Network (C.L.E.A.N) Car Wash Campaign where she was then hired as a full time organizer and eventually became a lead organizer. Today, Juliet is a Deputy II with the Bureau of Field Enforcement of the California Labor Commissioner’s Office and a proud mom of an energetic five-year-old.
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Book talk | Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism with Allyson Brantley
2021-05-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join us for a Book Talk on Tuesday, May 18th at 2pm with Dr. Allyson Brantley, author of Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism. Brewing a Boycott tells the story of one of the longest anti-corporate campaigns in U.S. history, the Coors Boycott. From the 1950s to the 1990s, union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and members of the LGBTQ+ community built a powerful coalition to fight the antiunionism, discrimination, and notoriously conservative politics of Coors Brewing Company. The activists at the heart of this campaign built bridges between divided communities, developed innovative campaign strategies, and refused to give up until the company met their demands. The story highlights the vibrancy of activism in the final decades of the twentieth century and the enduring legacy of that organizing for communities, consumer activists, and corporations today.
Dr. Allyson Brantley teaches, researches, and writes about the history of the United States, particularly in the 20th century. Her interests include the history of consumer culture, social movements and activism, and the US-Mexico borderlands. Dr. Brantley received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2016 and her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. Her recent publications include “Borderlands of Work,” a review for the New Labor Forum, and “’Mexico, At Our Very Door’: Prohibition-Era Brewing in the US-Mexico Borderlands,” in the Journal of the West (Summer 2016).
Join us on Facebook Live: facebook.com/UCLALaborStudies

The Drivers – A Short Play About the Experiences of Uber/Lyft Drivers
2021-05-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 4PM PT as we premiere The Drivers – A Short Play About the Experiences of Uber/Lyft Drivers performed by students from Labor Studies 152, Winter 2021: Work, Social Justice and Arts taught by Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernández.
Play Description
During the height of the COVID 19 pandemic, four Uber drivers meet in the morning at LAX. The play follows each driver throughout the day, culminating in their return to LAX that evening. This play explores the isolation of the American Worker, the shared bonds of their humanity, and the extremes that individuals go to for survival.
This play was developed by the performers through interviews and writing exercises, later compiled by Kyle J McCloskey – an MFA playwright here at UCLA – to create the experience of small moments that make up a life for rideshare drivers during the pandemic.
Performers

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

WATCH HERE

Career Conversation: "Lessons from a Recent UCLA Graduate" with Ashley Michel
2021-05-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
What is work life like after graduation? Interested in working for a non-profit organization connected to worker’s rights? Join us for our last virtual hangout of Spring Quarter, Tuesday, May 25th, from 11am-12pm to connect and have a stress-free, informal Q&A with UCLA Labor Studies recent UCLA graduate and Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) community organizer Ashley Michel. Let’s share space one more time this year to have a casual conversation about nonprofit sector jobs and get some firsthand work tips and truths from a first-gen professional.
Ashley is a first-generation student who graduated from UCLA in 2021 with a major in Labor Studies and minor in Chicanx & Central American Studies. The granddaughter of Bracero farmworkers, Ashley was born in the California Central Valley and grew up in the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where she was raised by a domestic worker. While at UCLA, she was involved in AAP’s Research Rookies, the Labor Summer Research Program, UNITE HERE Local 11, and SLAP. As the former Labor Studies communications student assistant, she created content for our social media and was one of the original masterminds behind Labor Studies Virtual Hangouts! Now, Ashley works as a Community Organizer for LAANE & Reclaim our Schools L.A.
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Labor Studies 101: The Global Struggle for Platform Workers’ Rights Beyond Proposition 22
2021-05-27 10:30 - 12:00 | Online
On Thursday, May 27th activists from the UK, Spain, Italy and Belgium will join students from the UCLA Labor Studies Program to discuss recent developments in the global struggle for platform workers’ rights.
In California, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash have invested more than $200 million to pass Proposition 22 by granting platform companies an exemption from local labor laws to continue the practice of hiring workers without social security, paid sick leave and the right to organize and bargain collectively. The CEOs of corporations, such as UBER, suggested that Proposition 22 would set a precedent for the gig economy at the international level.
However, platform workers have mobilized across the world to promote a more just regulation of this sector. Between February and April 2021, the UK Supreme Court and Italian Labor Inspectorate dictated landmark rulings against Uber, Deliveroo JustEat and Glovo that established the classification of platform workers as employees by providing them with labor rights and social protections. At the same time, the European and Spanish parliaments are discussing groundbreaking law proposals that would require more transparency in the management of data by companies.
Alex Marshall, president of the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), Isabel Chacón from Taxy Project and Riders X Derechos in Spain, Anne Dufresne, co-founder of the first European network of food delivery workers and Paolo Borghi, member of the grassroots union, Deliverance Milano and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Milan, will discuss how the struggle for labor rights in the platform economy has advanced after California passed Proposition 22.
Watch on Facebook Live at 10:300AM PT on May 27th.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Labor Studies Welcome 2021
2021-09-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online
Join us for our Labor Studies Information Session + Student Mixer! Learn about the Labor Studies Major & Minor and meet your faculty, staff, alumni, and fellow students!
Date: September 22 from 10am-11am PT
RSVP: https://bit.ly/laborstudieswelcome2021
Zoom link will be emailed to you after submitting this registration form.

Week 3 Labor Studies Virtual Hangout - Transitioning Back to Campus
2021-10-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
What has the transition back to campus been like for you? What concerns do you have about the transition away from remote learning? What are you looking forward to this year? Join the labor studies student staff for the first virtual hangout of the year for a conversation surrounding the transition to in person learning.
Date & Time: Monday, October 11th, 2:30pm – 3:30pm
RSVP here

Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border
2021-10-20 11:10 - 12:10 | Online
Please join our UCLA Labor Studies community for Oral History for Social Change: Documenting the Lived Experience of Migrants Separated at the U.S./Mexico Border, an online guest speaker event featuring Fanny García, hosted by labor studies lecturer Virginia Espino.
Fanny Julissa García is an award winning Honduran-American oral historian contributing work to Central American Studies. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master’s degree in Oral History from Columbia University. In 2019, she was awarded the Emerging Crisis Fund Award from the Oral History Association for “Separated: An Oral History” that seeks to document the stories of families separated under zero tolerance policy. She currently serves as the lead for the Storytelling Project established by the Women’s Refugee Commission to document the lived experiences of families adversely impacted by immigration policies administered by the United States government.
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Zoom – Online
Register HERE.

Week 6 Labor Studies Virtual Hangout – A Chat with Workers and Learners
2021-11-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Wonder what kind of research projects labor studies students are involved in? We invite you to our Week 6 Virtual Hangout with students who conduct research on the experiences of “workers and learners,” or those who both work and attend college in Los Angeles County. Join us to learn more about the researchers’ findings, have a candid conversation about what can be done to support workers and learners and more!
This Virtual Hangout will be hosted by the Labor Studies Work-Study team as well as student researchers Lesly Perez, Simran Athwal and Sandra Serrano.
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 2nd, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
RSVP here

Career Chat: Internships and Careers at the Labor Commissioner's Office
2021-11-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Online
Are you interested in interning or working at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office? Join us for a Career Chat to learn about how you can get involved! Special guests are UCLA alumna and Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner Jocelyn Lopez and Deputy Labor Commissioner Andres Herrera, who will share their experience with internships and tips for the hiring process at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office!
Guest Speakers:
Jocelyn Lopez, Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner
Andres Herrera, Deputy Labor Commissioner
Speaker Bios:
Jocelyn Lopez is a first generation college student who graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s of Arts in political science and a minor in labor studies. Despite her limited knowledge in the system and struggling to navigate college and build a career, Jocelyn has gone on to receive her Master’s in Public Administration from Cal State Long Beach and is now a Senior Deputy Labor Commissioner at the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, under the Judgment Enforcement Unit and she’s also a labor studies lecturer at Los Angeles Trade Tech College. Jocelyn is very thankful to her college counselors and mentors who guided her along the way and look forward to helping those beginning their journey as well.
Andres Herrera is a first generation college student who graduated from UC Irvine with a Bachelor’s of Arts in political science and a minor in sociology. After graduating from UC Irvine he enrolled to LA Trade Tech College to gain further knowledge in labor studies. While studying at LA Trade Tech he interned for the California Labor Commissioner’s Office. After his internship he volunteered for the Wage Justice Center to help combat wage theft. Andres is now a Deputy Labor Commissioner in the Judgment Enforcement Unit. He believes that his career in the Labor Commissioner’s Office is very rewarding as he helps victims of wage theft collect their unpaid judgments. He is motivated to inspire and help the next generation of college students attain their dream career.
Tuesday, November 16th, 3-4PM
RSVP HERE.

AMLO and the Press: A Conversation with Journalists
2021-11-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Zoom Virtual Event
Friday, November 19, 2021
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. PST
This roundtable, conducted in English, will feature two journalists, one from a U.S. media outlet, Carrie Kahn, Mexico, Central America & Caribbean Correspondent at NPR, and a Mexican media outlet, David Brooks, U.S. Correspondent at La Jornada in conversation about Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO’s) presidency.
This event will be moderated by Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies and Project Director at the UCLA Labor Center.
This event will be co-presented by the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the UCLA Latin American Studies Institute.
Register HERE.

Week 9 Virtual Hangout - A Conversation with Policy Analyst Tracie Sanchez, '13
2021-11-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
What kind of work do Labor Studies students get involved in after graduation? Join the Labor Studies team, Professor Janna Shadduck-Hernandez and UCLA alum Tracie Sánchez for a conversation about working at the U.S Government Accountability Office!
Tracie Sánchez is a first-gen UCLA alum and an analyst at the U.S Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Education and Income Security team. As an analyst, Tracie produces reports on education and workforce topics for Congress, which include recommendations for improving federal programs.
Janna Shadduck-Hernández, Ed.D. is a project director at the UCLA Labor Center and teaches for the UCLA Labor Studies program and in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Her research and teaching focus on developing culturally-relevant, participatory educational models with first- and second-generation university students, community members and youth.
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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.
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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.
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