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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.

Global Solidarity
Raizes de Solidaridad: Tour Unites Indigenous Farmworker Organizations Across Borders

From Sept. 3 to 6, 2024, the UCLA Labor Center’s Global Solidarity program organized a tour that brought together Indigenous farmworker organizations from San Quintín, Mexico, and Central California.

Freedom Fellowship
Creating Leaders, Building Movements: Insights from a 2024 Freedom Fellow

From Oakland, California, meet one of the CARE at Work Freedom Fellows: Bethel Dagnu (she/her). Bethel is driven by a deep commitment to uplifting Black communities through labor organizing and building community resources.

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.

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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