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Summer 2025 with the Nonviolence Education Project
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Ana Luz González-Vásquez appointed Deputy Director of the UCLA Labor Center
Dr. González-Vásquez brings with her over 20 years of experience in qualitative and quantitative research, using a participatory and popular education approach to engage research participants in the conceptualization and production of knowledge.
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Overworked & Under Pressure: A Study of Supermarket Workers in Los Angeles and Orange County Koreatowns
A new report highlights how Koreatown supermarket workers experience low and stagnant wages, unsafe working conditions, lacking health care benefits, and verbal abuse.
2025 Annual Snapshot
Cultivating Community Resilience
Through paid fellowships, community training, and public storytelling, the UCLA Labor Center turned research into action and prepared students and worker leaders to lead the worker justice movement.
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Harm to Table: Vulnerability and Exploitation in Los Angeles County Meatpacking and Food Processing
Los Angeles County has long been a hub for meatpacking and food processing, but decades of corporate consolidation and deregulation have reshaped the industry. This report highlights how industry practices undermine health and safety, and workers’ rights.
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High Stakes: The State of the California Cannabis Workforce
This report shares important trends that confirm the potential of cannabis to contribute to California’s growth, well-being, and environmental change, as well as challenges that must be addressed head-on.
Impact Brief
2025 UC Labor Centers Impact Brief
A first-of-its-kind UC labor center network—now spanning nine campuses—continues to advance worker-focused research, education, and leadership development. This brief highlights their 2025 achievements.
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Building Binational Farmworker Collaborations: Lessons from San Quintín
The UCLA Labor Center and farmworker labor rights advocates examine the growing impact of the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program and its implications for farmworker communities.
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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Re:Work Podcast at the UCLA Labor Center
Autoqueen Trilogy
Autoqueen Trilogy chronicles the life of Mohana Sundari, an auto driver in Chennai. Even in India, many are unaware that women drivers like Mohana exist. From an early age, Mohana has questioned and pushed against the limits placed on girls and women, forging her own path.
The first episode details Mohana’s family and childhood, while the second and third trace her journey into adulthood — through marriage, motherhood, financial struggle, personal loss and, eventually, organizing. Mohana goes on to become president of Veera Pengal Munnetra Sangam (VPMS), a union dedicated to empowering women in non-traditional sectors and the first cooperative to be registered within the state of Tamil Nadu’s transportation sector.
Listen at reworkradio.org or your preferred podcast platform. Read more about the series in the UCLA Newsroom.
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