For 60 years, the UCLA Labor Center, housed within the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), has advanced quality employment and education for all. With a history of fostering collaborations between students, faculty, workers, and community partners, our research justice, leadership development, and narrative change promotes worker justice, racial and economic equity, global solidarity, and immigrant rights.

Services Provided

Research, programming, leadership development, policy research, and narrative-change storytelling.

Who We Serve

Low-wage workers, researchers, students, faculty, labor unions, worker centers, policymakers, and community members.

Mission and Goals

The UCLA Labor Center brings together workers, students, faculty, and policymakers to address the most critical issues facing working people today. Our research, education, and policy work lifts industry standards, creates jobs that are good for communities, and strengthens immigrant rights, especially for students and youth.

Partnership Inquiries

UCLA LABOR CENTER: ADVANCING WORKER JUSTICE IN LOS ANGELES
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Campus Affiliation

All Partner Locations (125)

AAPI Data

ACLU of Southern California

AFL-CIO

AFL-CIO Solidarity Center

AFSCME United Domestic Workers

Aliento

Amalgamated Transit Union

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of Teachers

American Federation of Teachers Local 1521

Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) Los Angeles Chapter

Black Alliance for Justice Immigration

Black Freedom Fund

Black Lives Matter Grassroots

Black Lives Matter Los Angeles

BorderLinks

Building Skills Partnerships

California Agricultural Labor Relations Board

California Coalition for Worker Power

California Democratic Party African American Caucus (CDPAAC)

California Domestic Workers Coalition

California Energy Commission

California Federation of Labor Unions

California Federation of Teachers

California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz)

California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC)

California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)

California Jobs First Los Angeles Collaborative Steering Committee

California Labor Commissioner's Office

California Transit Works

California Workforce Development Board

Center for Policy Initiatives

Central American Resource Center

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)

Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño

Child Care Providers United (CCPU)

Chinese Progressive Association

City University of New York (CUNY) Office of Undocumented and Immigrant Student Programs

Clean Carwash Worker Center

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

College Track

Comite Obrero Fronterizo-CFO

Community Power Collective

Confederación Centroamericana y del Caribe (COFECA)

Convivir Colorado

Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI)

Earthlodge Center for Transformation

Essie Justice Group

First Gen Power

Garment Worker Center

Gig Workers Untied

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)

Grassroots Leadership

Greenpeace

HANA Center

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

Hospitality Training Academy (HTA)

Immigrant Justice in Action Coalition (IJAC)

Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Immigrants Rising

Inclusive Action for the City

Inland Empire Black Worker Center

Institute of Popular Education of Southern California

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)

Jobs With Justice

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance

LA Commons

LA Food Policy Council

Labor Commissioner’s Office

Liga Obrera Mexicana

Little Tokyo Service Center

Long Beach Workforce Innovation Network

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

Los Angeles Department of Economic Opportunity

Los Angeles Worker Center Network (LAWCN)

Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund

Miguel Contreras Foundation

Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project

National Domestic Workers Alliance

National Employment Law Project

National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)

National Lawyers Guild of Los Angeles

National Skills Coalition

Office of Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

Orange County Labor FederationOrganizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation and Empowerment (ORALE)

Pilipino Worker Center (PWC)

Powerswitch Action

Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration

Progressive Leadership Alliance Nevada

Public Counsel

Rideshare Drivers United

SEIU 2015

SEIU 721

SEIU California

SEIU Local 121 RN

SEIU Local 99

SEIU UHW-West

SEIU United Service Workers West (USWW)

San Diego Black Worker Center

Scholar Fund

Scholarship A-Z

Sierra Health Foundation

Silicon Valley Debug

Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras del Hogar

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)

Southern California Black Worker Hub

Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

State Building and Construction Trades Council of California

TheDream.US

Trabajadores Unidos/ Workers United

UFCW 770

UNITE HERE Local 11

Undocumented Student Network (USN)

United Auto Workers (UAW)

United Farmworkers Foundation

United Food and Commercial Workers Western States Council

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)

United We Dream

United for Respect

Unión Nacional de Trabajadores por Aplicación (UNTA)

Warehouse Workers Resource Center

Worksafe

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