These are some noteworthy labor headlines we read this week.

Weekend Labor Reads:

California defies Trump, shields schools and clinics from ICE

Over the weekend, Governor Newsom signed five bills into law aimed at protecting California’s large immigrant population from the federal government’s mass deportation agenda. The laws ban ICE from entering schools and private areas of hospitals without a warrant. Schools must now also notify families when ICE is nearby. The most controversial of the bills is a ban on facial coverings to conceal the identity of federal immigration officers. Officers are now also required to wear badges or name tags identifying themselves. These laws were backed by immigrant rights advocates in Los Angeles and California and amount to a major victory for school and family safety.

Politico

Lindsey Holden

LOS ANGELES CITY WORKERS

L.A. won’t lay off any city workers this year, mayor says

Los Angeles Times

Noah Goldberg

OLDER WORKERS

Too Old to Keep Working, Not Enough Money to Stop

Capital and Main

Lili Euzet

IMMIGRANT WORKER RIGHTS



She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

Prism 

Tina Vásquez

LABOR HISTORY

High Iron and Higher Stakes — Unions, Antisemitism Myths, and a Boxcar for Labor

Labor Heritage Power Hour

Patrick Dixon and Joe McCartin

UCLA IRLE NEWS:

UCLA launches Department of Labor Studies

After years of operating as a highly regarded interdepartmental program, UCLA Labor Studies has been elevated to a full academic department. As a department, UCLA Labor Studies will deepen its mission to educate the next generation of leaders on labor and social justice issues and connect them with community organizations across Los Angeles. Becoming a department is a significant milestone for Labor Studies, which through its major and minor program has trained hundreds of undergraduates to address urgent social problems related to labor and inequality.

Remember This!

Memory Work Los Angeles is a project of UCLA IRLE. We bring the past to the present to highlight the diverse experiences and perspectives of working people in Southern California, the changing world of work, and the continuing struggle for equality.

Labor studies students bring history out of the archives, 2019

In 2019, UCLA students participating in a special labor studies course conducted primary research on the labor movement using the records of Los Angeles unions from the 1990s and 2000s. For their final projects, students were encouraged to creatively express their findings though digital maps, zines, timelines and more. After presenting their work, students posed with Professor Toby Higbie and a set of life-sized portraits of activists painted from actual photographs and videos students encountered in the archives. Discover more on the Memory Work website. 

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UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) advances labor research and education for workplace justice. Through the work of its units – the UCLA Labor Center, the Human Resources Roundtable, the Labor Occupational Safety and Health program (LOSH) and its academic program, UCLA Labor Studies – the Institute forms wide-ranging research and agendas that carry UCLA into the Los Angeles community and beyond.