
As an integral part of the UCLA Labor Centerās schools-to-movement pathways, the Dream Summer, Labor Summer, and Freedom Fellowship programs cultivate the next generation of organizers by placing young leaders in unions, worker centers, and immigrant organizations in Los Angeles and beyond.
On June 6-7, 2025, the UCLA Labor Center gathered advocates, scholars, and organizers in Los Angeles to discuss the impacts of the H-2A guest worker program on the working conditions of farmworkers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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.

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.