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LA Times | 02/03/2025

Businesses close, children skip school for ‘a day without immigrants’ protest

In Southern California and across the country on Monday, dozens of businesses nationwide closed, schools reported lower attendance and families put off trips to the grocery store in observance of “A day without immigrants.”

JD Supra | 01/22/2025

SB 1350 Expands Cal/OSHA Regulations to the Majority of Household Domestic Workers

Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1350, which expands the definition of employment to include some household domestic employees who work through agencies. SB 1350 will go into effect on July 1, 2025.

KPFK Podcast | 01/26/2025

Beneath the Surface with Victor Narro

President Trump is back in power and immediately moved to carry out his xenophobic, cruel, hateful and racist policies with a slew of unconstitutional executive orders and plans for mass detention and deportation of the nation’s immigrants. We talk to three extraordinary activists whose organizations and coalitions are building effective solidarity and defense for the about to be detained and deported. Victor Narro, UCLA’s long time expert on immigrant rights and low wage workers, works in the sanctuary movement; Nana Gyamfi of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI); and Aquilina Soriano-Versoza of the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California explain what their Black, Latino and Filipino led and focused coalitions are doing to counter the Trump offensive against immigrants. This is practical solidarity that builds power -- and it is moving and uplifting.

CNN | 01/24/2025

Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA

On the outskirts of Altadena, where one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles history had just receded, a group of volunteers worked last week to gather fallen tree branches and leaves — removing fuel for potential future fires, bagging them up and taking them away.

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.

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