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2024 Annual Snapshot

Advancing a Worker-First Agenda

In partnership with unions, workers, students, faculty, and policymakers, the UCLA Labor Center changed working people’s lives.

News

Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund grants UCLA Labor Center $200,000

The largest-ever grant received by UCLA from the Haas, Jr. Fund will support undocumented students via the Opportunity For All campaign.

Report

Labor Solidarity in the T-MEC Era

From factory workers to gig workers, this report captures the key strategies discussed to build transnational labor solidarity.

Report

Workforce Warriors: Los Angeles Black Worker Center's Bold Battle for Equity

A new report evaluates the WED Project, a full employment model that codifies the City of Los Angeles’ commitment to a pathway to pre-apprenticeship and on-the-job training for Black workers.

Re:Work Podcast
Cultivating Healing in Challenging Times with Re:Work Podcast

For over a decade, Re:Work has elevated stories of work and activism to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues, and challenge problematic dominant narratives. The latest episodes feature guests who discuss emotional well-being when doing social justice work.

Giving Legacies
Charting His Own Course

Nathan Seidman ’96 came to UCLA and discovered that his passion was for studying the workplace and workers’ rights. He’s now a staunch long-term supporter of UCLA’s Labor Center.

60 Years of Worker Justice

Established in 1964, the UCLA Labor Center advances cutting-edge research, education, and service guided by our core values: economic equity, racial and immigrant justice, and worker power and solidarity.

About Us
A Public University Belongs to the People
A Public University Belongs to the People

Through our signature approaches and methodology that employ research justice, narrative storytelling, student and leader-to-movement pathways, and culturally and racially responsive evaluation, we partner with workers, unions, worker centers, students, and impacted communities to advance economic justice across California, the nation and globally.

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