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UCLA Newsroom | 01/20/2025

King’s teachings passed from one of his contemporaries to UCLA undergraduates

For over two decades, the late Rev. James Lawson Jr. inspired students to carry on the fight for justice in his course that explored nonviolent theory and its impact on social movements in the U.S, and around the globe. Learn about how the nonviolence class connected students to King’s enduring legacy.

Univision | 01/15/2025

Latinos enfrentan desempleo e incertidumbre tras los incendios en Los Ángeles

Armando González, quien lleva más de 40 años trabajando como jardinero y en construcción, dice que tuvo que buscar una alternativa de ingresos debido a que en Altadena, donde tenía dos empleos, la destrucción es total por los incendios forestales.

Daily Trojan | 01/17/2025

University challenges RTPC unionization. National Labor Relations Board hearings resumed after delaying, citing fires.

Kent Wong, the project director for labor and community partnerships at UCLA, former director of UCLA’s Labor Center and a lecturer at UCLA’s labor studies program, said the University’s argument is “really inconsistent” with recent NLRB rulings. Wong said all California State University and Los Angeles Community College faculty are unionized while also being members of an academic senate.

CalMatters | 01/17/2025

‘It all ended in a second’: Thousands of low-income and immigrant workers lost jobs in LA fires

When Hermelinda Guadarrama and her daughter went to work to clean Netflix Hollywood’s offices last week, they had no idea that it might be their last day.

LAist | 01/16/2025

Domestic Workers

Part of the fabric of SoCal: Domestic workers – nannies, gardeners, attendants for older adults – are a huge part of the region’s economy. More than 100,000 of them work in L.A. County — many of them immigrants. Eight out of 10 California domestic workers are people born outside of the country, according to a UCLA Labor Center report.

NPR | 01/14/2025

The L.A. fires are hurting service workers who cared for home : NPR

Among the hardest hit labor sectors in Los Angles are service workers, many of whom cleaned and maintained the homes destroyed by fire in wealthy areas.

LA Times | 01/11/2025

‘We will not be closing.’ Amid the fires, employers and employees walk a fine line between work and safety

Victor Narro, project director for the UCLA Labor Center and a lecturer on campus, said in a post on X he would ignore the school’s mandate and hold an optional class online.

CounterPunch | 12/12/2024

The High Price of Pretty Feet: Addressing the Plight of Nail Salon Workers

Nail salons are often hailed by labor economists as an immigrant success story. Well over half of the 200,000 salons nationwide – up from just 50,000 in 2010 — are owned and operated by Vietnamese women. But there’s a huge downside: the industry is rife with health and safety violations. Not only are American consumers – mostly women, eager for low-cost manicures and pedicures – increasingly at risk for bacterial and fungal infections, but the salon workers themselves – many of them undocumented, and over 80% women – face workplace exploitation in addition to threats of toxic contamination.

Sacramento Bee | 12/12/2024

California employees should receive mandatory AI training, report recommends. Here’s why

Artificial intelligence training should be mandatory for state employees to better prepare California for the anticipated growth of the new technology, a new report from the Little Hoover Commission recommended.

Marketplace | 12/13/2024

Why the union push at a San Bernardino, California Amazon hub is an especially big deal

More than 1,000 Amazon workers in San Bernardino, California unionized this week with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. They aren’t the first employees at the e-commerce giant to unionize.

ABC 7 | 12/18/2024

San Francisco Amazon workers to strike Thursday morning, possibly impacting holiday shipping

The Teamsters union is launching a strike against Amazon that starts Thursday morning, and it includes a facility in San Francisco. The union says thousands of Amazon workers will walk off the job at 6 a.m., right in the middle of the busy holiday shipping season.

KPFA Radio | 01/02/2025

2025 California Labor Laws

Kent Wong, Project Director for Labor and Community Partnerships, discusses a few of the new labor laws on the books in California this year.

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