Re:Work Institute for Worker Justice
Nail Files California: A Study of Nail Salon Workers and Their Industry
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Solidarity Shines: 60 Years of Building Worker Justice
Join us in celebrating the UCLA Labor Center’s 60th anniversary on Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 5:30-9 p.m at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles Hotel.
Obituary
In Memoriam: Rev. James Lawson Jr., 95, Civil and Workers’ Rights Icon and UCLA Faculty Member
The UCLA Labor Center is very sad to announce the passing of Rev. James Lawson Jr., 95, one of the civil rights movement’s most prominent leaders, a lifelong advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence, and a UCLA labor studies faculty member.
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A Perfect Union
Saba Waheed has dedicated her life to social justice. As the new director of the UCLA Labor Center, she’s now on the front lines in the fight for workers’ rights.
POWER in Workforce Development
Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez appointed to California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System Governing Board
She brings to the board over 17 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research on workforce development, low-wage workers and informal labor markets.
Nonviolence Project
The California Endowment grants the UCLA Labor Center $500,000
The funds will build the James Lawson Jr./Dolores Huerta Nonviolence Education Project, an initiative that provides a nonviolence curriculum to educators across California.
Nearly 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.
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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Re:Work, the UCLA Labor Center podcast
For the past decade, Re:Work has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues.
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