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What I wish I had learned in high school: Young Workers Education Project and the UCLA Labor Center’s Young Worker Initiative
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Young Worker Initiative
What I Wish I Had Learn in High School
The UCLA Labor Center’s Young Worker Initiative and Young Workers Education Project (YWEP) visited Gardena High School to lead a three-day discussion on the 1892 Homestead Strike with 11th-grade history students. A former LAUSD student reflects on her experience returning to the classroom as a labor studies educator.
Asian American Racial Justice
Empowering API Workers: Reflections from the APALA Organizing Institute
From September 13-15, nearly 40 trainees and training fellows from Southern California unions came together in Los Angeles for the APALA Organizing Institute’s (OI) three-day training, led by the UCLA Labor Center’s Asian American Racial Justice (AARJ) project and the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA).
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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