Successful drives to form new unions may generate buzz and media attention, but the most meaningful change happens after that first battle is won—in employer negotiations. For many workers, forming a union is only the beginning of a longer battle to improve work standards and conditions. Just 1 in 2 bargaining units formed in California […]
Date and Time: October 9, 2026, 10-11:30 PDT Location: Virtual RSVP Against the backdrop of unemployment and civil unrest in the early 1990s, California Republicans offered voters a simple, brutal solution: criminalize undocumented immigrants. Proposition 187, a statewide voter initiative, threatened to exclude immigrants from all public services and to enlist teachers, neighbors and faith […]
Date and Time: October 16, 2026, 10-11:30 am PDT Location: Virtual RSVP Part 2 of the “Meeting the Moment” series brings together three leaders at the forefront of labor and community responses to the current militarized federal immigration in cities across the U.S. Facing the largest deportation campaign since the 1950s, labor unions and their members, alongside […]
The UCLA Strategic Research Lab will hold a five-day intensive training in using the power of Python coding to simplify tasks for union research. The camp will be held in the summer of 2027, and applications will open in late February. The Coding Bootcamp is an intense and challenging experience! Come ready to jump feet […]
