📣🚨Super excited that SARA NELSON @flyingwithsara.bsky.social will be this year’s UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE’S Keynote Speaker‼️ Checkout our conf website for the latest workshops announced‼️ @californialabor.bsky.social @thelafed.bsky.social @uclairle.bsky.social @uclalabor.bsky.social
Project Director Victor Narro shared his experience with organizing/partaking in the historic 2006 march, where over 1 million marched for immigrant rights in Downtown L.A on March 25.
Take a few minutes to learn more about this important memory in immigrant justice. www.kcrw.com/stories/when...
Did you know that there are 9 Labor Centers across the UC System? 💡
Learn more about what these centers have been up to by reading our newly published impact brief. 🗒
bit.ly/UCLCIMPACT
Part one of the Autoqueen Trilogy explores Mohana’s family background and childhood, and the roots of her fiercely independent spirit. 🔥🎙️
reworkradio.labor.ucla.edu/2026/03/25/a...
This Women’s History Month, we invite you to listen to a story from India that often goes unheard. Meet Mohana Sundari, a woman who is part of a small but growing group of women driving auto rickshaws in Chennai. 🎙️
Please tune in at reworkradio.org or your preferred podcast platform.
The UCLA Labor Center invites applicants for a Research Director position to lead and coordinate research at the Labor Center.
Application link: bit.ly/LCRDAPP
If you are a survivor of sexual violence, please know that there are people and resources available to support you.
📣 IRLE’s Winter 2026 quarterly newsletter is out now!
Read here: conta.cc/4b6BdFk
Catch up on the latest news from our units including the Labor Center (@uclalabor.bsky.social), Labor Studies and LOSH (@uclalosh.bsky.social) 🗞️ ☕
Now's the time! 🎉
RSVP for our homecoming event, "Our Home, Our Movement: Celebrating a Historic Working-Class Landmark", as we gather to honor labor, community, and reentering our building.
🔗 BIT.LY/LCOHOM
New research findings from KIWA, the UCLA Labor Center, and AAPI Data shed light on the experiences of Ktown supermarket workers.
Read the full report to learn more: bit.ly/LCOWUP
71% of Koreatown Supermarket workers are low-wage workers—and the vast majority struggle to make ends meet.
Learn more about the stagnant wages and experiences of wage theft within KTown supermarkets in our latest report: bit.ly/LCOWUP 🔗
This piece covers our newly released research report, Overworked & Under Pressure: A Study of Supermarket Workers in Los Angeles and Orange County Koreatowns. Read it now to learn more about the often unseen experiences of these workers. 🛒🔍
📢 Published today: Read the latest report from the UCLA Labor Center, KIWA, and AAPI Data, “Overworked & Under Pressure: A Study of Supermarket Workers in Los Angeles and Orange County Koreatowns”.
Full report: bit.ly/LCOWUP
Catch the next screening of "A Better Way" at the Pan African Film Festival on February 21st. 🎥
The documentary follows Rev. James Lawson Jr., civil rights icon and the namesake of our MacArthur Park building.
Screening Information available at: lnkd.in/gDHPAYdt 🔗
“It’s also been used as a political pawn. It’s used by the right wing to highlight what’s wrong with LA, it’s used by people like myself, to show the vibrancy, the diversity, and really the humanity of the city,” said Project Director Victor Narro. (
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RSVP Now! Join us on February 18 at 10am to hear findings from our newest report, Overworked & Under Pressure: A Study of Supermarket Workers in Los Angeles and Orange County Koreatowns.
bit.ly/4r0QBsp 🔗
It’s that time of year! The UCLA 2026 Labor Summer fellowship is now accepting applications. 👏
📣 Open to University of California (UC), California Community College (CCC), and California State University (CSU) students and recent grads
🔗 Apply now at: bit.ly/LS26FELLOW
Powerful stories from organizers and researchers reflecting on the impact of 2025 fires on workers and communities. Economic and health impacts linger much longer than public attention. Need to prepare now for the future climate-related disasters that are sure to come
“It’s like David versus Goliath,” Brian Justie, senior research analyst at @uclalabor.bsky.social, says of taking on the food industry. “How could you possibly battle this behemoth?”
The 2026 national Dream Summer fellowship application is now open (and we're celebrating our 15 year anniversary)! 🤩🌤
🌟 Apply now at: bit.ly/DS26FELLOW
We invite you to read our 2025 Annual Snapshot to learn more about the various ways our community has persevered to advance worker and immigrant justice.
🔗 bit.ly/LC25CCR
“A recurring refrain that kept coming to mind as we were doing the research,” Brian Justie, a lead researcher on the report, tells Sentient, “was something that one of the workers said to us…‘speed over safety.’” But there are ways to make the industry safer, Justie says.
📢 Join us in-person on January 15th, 2026 to hear from experts on how the 2025 fires impacted the workers involved in recovery efforts.
📍 UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center
🔗 RSVP now at bit.ly/4jx09IR
“The ICE raids are everywhere,” says LC Project Director Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social, “so there’s already that fear. The employers tap into that fear to keep them in a situation where they become afraid to complain about working conditions. So then you see a higher level of violations.”
Join the UCLA Labor Center's Nonviolence Education Project on December 10th for an in-person panel featuring student activists and immigrant rights leaders.
🗓 December 10 from 5:30 to 8:00pm
On Tuesday, labor advocates and community members joined UCLA Labor Center director Saba Waheed in a conversation with former US Secretary of Labor Julie Su. 🔥
This timely discussion marks the first public talk held at the newly renovated James Lawson Worker Justice Center.
Wage theft is rampant in the meatpacking industry.
New research findings from the UCLA Labor Center shed light on the experiences of meatpacking and food processing workers in LA county.
📊 Full report: bit.ly/LAMPFP
Don't miss out!
Register now to join UCLA Labor Center Director Saba Waheed @sabawa.bsky.social for a conversation with former U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su. 💬
📍Where: 675 S Park View St, Los Angeles, CA 90057
⏰ When: November 18 from 4-6pm
🔗 bit.ly/JSULAB
There has been an alarming increase in child labor within the meatpacking industry. ⚠️
Learn more about this industry’s vulnerable workforce in a new report from the UCLA Labor Center: bit.ly/LAMPFP
