Re:Work Institute for Worker Justice
Nail Files California: A Study of Nail Salon Workers and Their Industry
Organization Sign-On Letter
Save UC-Based Labor Research & Education
All $13 million of annual funding for University of California labor centers, research, and education is at risk of being cut from the state’s budget.
Public Statement
An Update from the UCLA Labor Center Steering Committee
We are in alliance with the faculty, labor unions, and community members who stand with students in supporting their right to protest.
Featured News
The California Wellness Foundation Grants CARE at Work $500,000
The grant will support participatory research, narrative shift, field development, and school-to-movement pathways.
Featured News
UCLA Labor Center moves into new UCLA Downtown building
Joining 30 other community-focused programs, the site will provide a critical space for the UCLA Labor Center to continue advancing worker justice across Los Angeles.
Featured News
Saba Waheed appointed director of the UCLA Labor Center
The first woman of color to assume the role, Waheed served as the UCLA Labor Center’s research director for the past 11 years.
POWER in Workforce Development
Ana Luz Gonzalez-Vasquez appointed to California’s Cradle-to-Career Data System Governing Board
She brings to the board over 17 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research on workforce development, low-wage workers and informal labor markets.
Nonviolence Project
The California Endowment grants the UCLA Labor Center $500,000
The funds will build the James Lawson Jr./Dolores Huerta Nonviolence Education Project, an initiative that provides a nonviolence curriculum to educators across California.
Nearly 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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Our Projects
Re:Work, the UCLA Labor Center podcast
For the past decade, Re:Work has elevated stories of work to humanize and break down economic and racial justice issues.
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