Madison Mavis is the Director of Sustainability and Partnerships for NuSource, where she forms partnerships with fashion brands and nonprofits to divert excess inventory or donations from waste streams. She is an active member of the Act on Fashion coalition, advocating for the swift passage of the New York Fashion Act. Labor 411 Editor, Sahid…
On June 6, 2025, ICE conducted its infamous raids in Los Angeles, targeting workers in the garment sector, laborers in Home Depot parking lots, and many others throughout the city. The Trump administration sent in the National Guard and Marines in an obscene show of force to disproportionately deal with any protesters. Labor 411 editor,…
Saba Waheed is the director of the UCLA Labor Center. Prior to this role, she spent 11 years as the Labor Center’s research director. With nearly 20 years of experience developing community-led research projects for labor advocacy organizations, Waheed’s work is grounded in the “research justice” framework, which she co-developed to address structural inequities in…
By Sahid Fawaz Chris Kerr is the Executive Director of the Ignatian Solidarity Network, which is a US-based national social justice education and advocacy organization grounded in Catholic Social Teaching and the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The organization, along with Ethix-Merch, co-founded the Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance to provide support to institutions seeking to…
By Sahid Fawaz On Wednesday, May 21st, the Buy Your Values UCLA (BYV) coalition– a newly formed initiative under Environmental Justice Now, a facilities committee under the Undergraduate Students Association Council at UCLA– hosted its first in-person event. The event aimed to educate students from various garment-oriented organizations about the importance of joining the coalition. BYV seeks…
Labor 411 editor, Sahid Fawaz, spoke with Jacqueline Lewis, who is an Advocacy Counsel at the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR). At ICAR, she advocates for advancing legal and regulatory mechanisms combating corporate human rights and environmental abuses in the United States and across global supply chains and works toward building an economy that works for everyone….
An Interview with Paula Daniels, Founding Chair of the Center for Good Food Purchasing Labor 411’s editor Sahid Fawaz sat down with noted expert Paula Daniels, head of the Center for Good Food Purchasing, an LA-based non-profit that brings locally grown, good, healthy food to our public schools and government institutions. Now the Good Food…
An Interview with UCLA’s Gilda Haas Gilda Haas, co-founder and current faculty of UCLA Labor Studies’ Community Scholars Program, sat down with Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz to talk about the program and its role in building a better Los Angeles. SF: Can you give our readers a bit of background on the Community Scholars Program and…
From https://ignatiansolidarity.net/ The long road of rebuilding in Los Angeles began with inspiring responses from the LA and extended community, highlighting resiliency and generosity. LA will rise from the ashes, and, as León Krause of The Washington Post makes clear, immigrants will be the ones doing the rebuilding. According to Krause’s investigation, immigrants make up 43% of…
The Buy Your Values campaign is pleased to join hundreds of labor groups, businesses, and other organizations in endorsing The Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act. Modeled on California’s historic Garment Worker Protection Act, the FABRIC Act would end piece rate pay and implement hourly pay for garment workers. In addition, the Department…