Checkout our UCLA Strategic Research Lab’s latest Bootcamp! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Finally some good news out of UCLA… Our program has been elevated to an official Department of Labor Studies, the first labor studies department in UC history! newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

📊A new report from the UCLA IRLE and UC Berkeley Labor Center (@ucblaborcenter.bsky.social) reveals data on union membership and organizing activity in California and the nation✊ KEY FINDINGS IN THREAD ⬇️ Read at bit.ly/SOTU-2024

🚨NEW REPORT‼️“State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024,” provides a snapshot of the state’s labor movement, including data on union density, member demographics and labor organizing activity in California and the nation.  irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

L.A. volunteers who document ICE raids are being arrested. How to do it safely www.latimes.com/california/s...

💥📣2025 UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE Keynote Panel on “Advanced Data Science for Labor Research” is 🔥💻 🔥💻 🔥💻 🔥💻 🔥💻 🔥💻 🔥

Awesome Opening Keynote by Marshall Ganz at this year’s UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE‼️

“They’re fighting what they perceive as fascism and militarism taking over their city and their state” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump/ICE is arresting 660 immigrants a day, a rate that would take them 50 years to deport all 12M undoc immigrants (and that’s assuming no new ones come). This isn’t about “fixing the immigration system,” it’s about terrorizing Latinx communities.

ONLY 6 MORE DAYS TO APPLY to the 2025 UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ 🔥Over 20 Workshops🔥 like the ones below designed specifically by and for Movement Researchers🤓💻📈📊📉🗺️🏦🕵🏻‍♀️🪧✊🏽

ONLY 6 MORE DAYS TO APPLY to the 2025 UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ 🔥Over 20 Workshops🔥 like the ones below designed specifically by and for Movement Researchers🤓💻📈📊📉🗺️🏦🕵🏻‍♀️🪧✊🏽

☄️APPLY by May 16‼️Three more dynamic workshops confirmed for this year’s UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE‼️📈📊🧑🏽‍🏫🧑🏻‍💻🪧✊🏽

📣🚨2 More Weeks to APPLY to this years SLRC‼️ Come learn about ✊🏽Power Analysis & 👩🏿‍💻🪧 Researching Union Busters‼️ 🚨

🔥🔥Awesome Plenary Panel just announce for this year’s UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE‼️🔥🔥🧑🏻‍💻📊📉📈

🚨Over 20 dynamic applied skills workshops at this year’s 🔥UCLA STRATEGIC LABOR RESEARCH CONFERENCE🔥Checkout the two below and others on our website. There’s still time to APPLY‼️📊🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

🚨🔔 Excited to announce that the one and only MARSHALL GANZ will be this year’s SLRC’s Keynote Speaker‼️🔥 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

🚨🔔 Excited to announce that the one and only MARSHALL GANZ will be this year’s SLRC’s Keynote Speaker‼️🔥 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

California legislators announced several bills to protect the state’s immigrants being targeted by President Trump’s aggressive new policies, including federal enforcement raids at schools, hospitals and religious buildings. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Tabling at #UALE2025

🚨APPLY NOW to the 2025 UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ For the first time, this year we’ll be opening up the conference to researchers beyond CA and accepting applicants from across the country 📊🕵🏾‍♀️🧑🏻‍💻📈🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

🚨APPLY NOW to the 2025 UCLA Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ For the first time, this year we’ll be opening up the conference to researchers beyond CA and accepting applicants from across the country 📊🕵🏾‍♀️🧑🏻‍💻📈🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

“Part of SNCC’s brilliance was their power structure analysis. Ella Baker, Bob Moses and other leaders knew that to build and exercise power, you needed to focus on the corporations and local power players that politicians take their marching orders from.” inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

📣SAVE THE DATE🚨 for our 3rd annual Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ For the first time, this year’s conference will be open to applicants NATIONWIDE🔥🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

apnews.com/article/coll... DHS “ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections.”

📣SAVE THE DATE🚨 for our 3rd annual Strategic Labor Research Conference‼️ For the first time, this year’s conference will be open to applicants NATIONWIDE🔥🪧✊🏽 irle.ucla.edu/research/ucl...

🚨 The White House is expected to issue an executive order TODAY to dismantle the United States Postal Service. Call Speaker Mike Johnson and tell him to say HELL NO to this order, and to support letter carriers and postal workers. 📲 202-224-3121

🚨APPLY NOW‼️UCLA Strategic Research Lab’s “Python Coding Camp for Union Researchers” irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-c...

🚨APPLY NOW‼️UCLA Strategic Research Lab’s “Python Coding Camp for Union Researchers” irle.ucla.edu/event/ucla-c...

Keeping yourself safe at work is your right! Workers have special protections during emergency conditions, such as the devastating wildfire events that have recently impacted Los Angeles. Have questions on health and safety in the workplace? Reach out to us!

Given the brazen attacks on labor rights and the current federal administration, extending unemployment insurance to striking workers is a low-cost policy that is good for workers AND state economies 🌇 www.epi.org/publication/...

Burning ash stung her throat and her nose. Blustering winds spread ashes onto the field, obscuring her vision with smoke. But Griselda Ellez, who picks leeks in CA’s Ventura Co., said she had no option but to continue working ... www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

Since 2009, the LittleSis power research database has served as a tool for investigating networks of influence. We invite you to join us on Thursday, February 13th at 11am PT/2pm ET Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

apnews.com/article/leon... Biden commutes sentence for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted in killing of FBI agents

Si la migra te detiene, ¡recuerda esta canción! No tienes que firmar ni decir nada. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio, y tienes derecho a un abogado. ¡Mantén la calma y recuerda tus derechos! #conozcasusderechos #knowyourrights #immigration

Really incredible to ban TikTok to try to pander emptily to anti-Chinese politics and to suppress pro-Palestinian views, only to get outflanked by Trump. The Democrats are doing incredible

Compelling and beautifully written must-read @latimes.com story by @brittnymejia.bsky.social and Ruben Vives about the large community of immigrant workers impacted by the fires www.latimes.com/california/s...

We’re thrilled to share breaking news: The AFL-CIO and @seiu.org are reuniting with a new, long-term effort to make it easier for workers to win a voice on our jobs with our unions.  There’s power in unity! aflcio.org/press/releas...

Once again, love that @kimkelly.bsky.social has this labor story in Teen Vogue! www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

Baristas at a handful of Starbucks around Los Angeles as well as in Chicago and Seattle went on strike Friday, kicking off a work stoppage that union officials said would include hundreds of the coffee giant’s stores by Christmas Eve. By @suhauna.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto...

“Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years. It needs to expand its social base and movement infrastructure and build campaigns for multi-racial democracy…” - ⁦‪@CaputoPearl‬⁩ convergencemag.com/articles/how...

Almost nobody understands the (potential) power of organized labor better than the US Right

The great Kent Wong (UCLA Labor Center), Susan Minato (UNITE HERE Local 11) & Robin DG Kelley (UCLA History & Labor Studies) honoring the legacy of Rev James Lawson at UCLA🪧✊🏽