The Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) is a multidisciplinary research center dedicated to advancing labor research and education for workplace justice. Through the work of its units – UCLA Labor Center, Human Resources Roundtable, and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program – the Institute forms wide-ranging research agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.
2024
- Outrage over California’s new fast-food minimum wage is hard to stomach, MSNBC, April 2, 2024
- California Fast Food Workers Just Got A $20 Hourly Minimum Wage. How Do You Know If You’re Included?, LAist, April 1, 2024
- L.A. promised to hire 200 Black workers from a job training program. That hasn’t happened., CalMatters, March 28, 2024
2023
- ‘Broken’ US labor laws could hamper union wins for workers, experts warn, The Guardian, December 27, 2023
- Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was ‘going to hell.’ Are we there yet?, Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2023
- Federal government might force Starbucks to reopen LA stores, KCRW, December 19, 2023