These are some noteworthy labor headlines we read this week.

Weekly Labor Reads:

TOP STORY

How Employers and Labor Groups Are Trying to Protect Workers From ICE

In the newest installment of its “ICE vs. LA” series, Capital and Main teamed up with local Los Angeles newsrooms to document how employers and worker centers are taking steps to protect workers from immigration raids. The article covers initiatives by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, United Farm Workers, the Garment Worker Center and individual employers. Their approaches integrate community vigilance, know your rights training, physical barriers and indications of private property. Despite employers and worker center’s best efforts, ICE raids continue to create workplaces ruled by fear and uncertainty across Southern California.

Captial and Main

Jeremy Lindenfeld

UC WORKERS

As UC nurses reach tentative deal and call off strike, UC service workers walk off the job

Los Angeles Times

Kevin Rector and Clara Harter

LIVING WAGE

A $30 minimum wage? It could be coming, California

Los Angeles Times

James Rainey

LABOR ACTIONS



Starbucks Workers Strike Against Foot-Dragging in Bargaining

Jacobin

Alex N. Press

CULTURE WORKERS

As a labor force, artists are 'invisible.' A new survey tries to change that

NPR

Elizabeth Blair

IRLE IN THE NEWS

PERSPECTIVES

Car wash workers already had it tough. Then immigration raids slammed them to the ground

Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Arellano

Ft. Victor Narro, UCLA Labor Center project director

NEW FROM THE IRLE

UCLA LABOR CENTER

Re:Work Radio: Healing Together

This episode of Re:Work by the UCLA Labor Center features Domenique Harmon, a passionate advocate for mental health awareness and workers’ rights. Domenique shares how her experiences in the cannabis industry, mental health spaces, and UFCW have shaped her professional journey and personal path to healing. 

Listen at reworkradio.org or your preferred podcast platform. To read the UCLA Labor Center’s report on cannabis workers, please visit bit.ly/uclacannabisreport.

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.

May Day, Los Angeles, 2003 

The Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON) formed in the year 2000 to support immigrant and undocumented immigrant labor rights across Los Angeles. The coalition brought together the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (Institute for Popular Education of Southern California, IDEPSCA), Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), the Pilipino Worker Center (PWC), and later the Garment Worker Center (GWC), among other organizations. Pictured here: a scene from MIWON’s May Day march in 2003, where protestors connected “immigrant bashing” in Los Angeles and the United States government’s invasion of Iraq weeks earlier.

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