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Chancellor Gene Block visited the UCLA Downtown Labor Center on February 28, 2008. This was the first time a chancellor had visited the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.
Speakers at the reception included María Elena Durazo, leader of the L.A. County Federation of Labor; David Sickler, L.A. Department of Water and Power executive director for employment relations; Deputy Mayor Larry Frank; UCLA Professors Ruth Milkman and Abel Valenzuela; Thembekila Coleman-Smart, a UCLA Community Scholar, Gabino Martinez, a graduate of the Labor Center’s Spanish-Language Leadership School, and former UCLA students Tam Tran and Hector Saldivar.
The UCLA Downtown Labor Center has recently doubled its space and is now launching a new immigrant worker resource center named in honor of Miguel Contreras. Miguel Contreras first dedicated the UCLA Labor Center on Labor Day 2002 along with Governor Gray Davis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and numerous congressional representatives and leaders of the California state legislature. |
