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UCLA Labor Center convenes California labor leaders in Mexico City
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Global Solidarity
The Global Solidarity project believes that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders.
The Global Labor Solidarity Program at the UCLA Labor Center is guided by the core belief that in a global economy, unions and workers must come together across borders in order to improve their wages and working conditions. Our mission is to build strategic international partnerships among labor leaders, advocates and scholars, and to conduct research and facilitate conversations that improve labor standards and working conditions across the U.S.-Mexico border. Multinational corporations know no boundaries and can dodge labor and environmental regulations—factory workers, garment workers, farm workers, migrant workers, and gig workers pay the price.
Trinational Convenings
As part of our effort to foster cross-border labor solidarity, the Global Solidarity project organizes regular transnational convenings, bringing together labor leaders and workers from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. for strategic conversations and organizing discussions. These events foster collaboration between unions and create a space for impactful discussions surrounding worker rights campaigns in communities across North America. We have hosted these labor gatherings in partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung—New York Office for 18 years.
Labor Centers in Mexico
Since 2021, the Global Solidarity Program has led an effort to create labor centers at three Mexican universities to support research, data collection and policy engagement to promote compliance of more robust labor protections enacted through the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Since then, staff and faculty of the UCLA Labor Center and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) have participated in a variety of binational academic labor convenings focused on advancing a common research agenda among labor scholars to foster greater cross- border labor knowledge during a pivotal period for U.S. and Mexico labor relations.
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