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 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…
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…
April 27 Event to Spotlight Rampant Wage Theft Caroline Luce Ph.D. is a lecturer at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor & Employment. Her specialty is immigration, labor, and working-class culture in the American West. She is also a member of the Buy Your Values UCLA Steering Committee and is coordinating the Pay Your Workers…
An Interview with Nayantara Banerjee of the Garment Worker Center Nayantara Banerjee, Industry Researcher and Strategist at the Garment Worker Center and a member of the Buy Your Values UCLA Steering Committee, sat down with Labor 411’s Sahid Fawaz to talk about the Garment Worker Center’s role in the UCLA campaign. Sahid: Thank you for taking…