Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity
Workforce Warriors: Los Angeles Black Worker Center’s Bold Battle for Equity
Event
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.
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.
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.
Profile
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.
Young Worker Education Project
Labor Studies Undergraduate Students Become Leaders in the Classroom
Through role-play scenarios and a simulation-based curriculum inspired by historical events, students have the opportunity to act out high-stakes, worker-led decision-making.
Asian American Racial Justice Project
Summer of API empowerment: Asian American Racial Justice Project July 2024 Recap
Throughout July 2024, the UCLA Labor Center’s Asian American Racial Justice (AARJ) project joined together with community, student, and labor organizations to host a series of three events.
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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