This Is Not a Climate Film is an intimate portrait of the migrant workforce protecting US forests from the most devastating impacts of climate change. Directed and produced by UC Berkeley Journalism students, Hana Beach and Rebeca San Martin, it is a call for climate justice that includes, rather than exploits.
DEADLINE TO APPLY EXTENDED TO SEPT 16! The Skills to Win Workshop is a six-week series for rank and file members and staff of unions, worker associations, worker centers, and community organizations that are embarking on, or in the midst of, organizing campaigns.
Inspired by Fred Ross Sr, one of the most influential grassroots organizers of the 20th century, American Agitators is a documentary about the importance of patience and deep listening in organizing. Winner of Best Documentary at Cinequest Film Festival.
“Digital technologies are not inherently harmful, but without the establishment of clear guardrails — rules of the road — they can have profoundly negative impacts on workers,” Mishal Khan said.
The report State of the Unions: California Labor in 2024 provides a snapshot of the California labor movement at a time of dramatic political and economic shifts nationwide. Led by researchers at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and the UC Berkeley Labor Center, the report analyzes the most recent publicly available data on union density, member demographics, and labor organizing activity in California and the nation.
“I think the totality of our report is about how hard these unions continue to work to organize and provide benefits to their workers,” Lopezlira said. “Given all these headwinds — housing, health care affordability, technology, AI — the resiliency of California unions to look for innovative ways to help workers is critically important.”
California labor unions held their ground on membership last year, representing about one in six workers across the state, even as the ranks of organized workers continued to decline in the nation as a whole, according to a new report from two University of California labor centers.
Join the UC Berkeley Labor Center this Fall! Find out more about the labor movement and social justice work by attending our panel discussions, free film screenings, partner event talks, and more.
This factsheet highlights the characteristics of the private sector security guard workforce in NYC, home to a large part of the nation’s security guard workforce. With its scale and visibility, NYC has the potential to set a national standard for improving labor conditions in the security services industry, which has national revenues of $22.7 billion for unarmed guard services alone. The labor conditions of security guards are also foundational to broader questions of how cities achieve public safety.
UC Berkeley Labor Center researchers Miranda Dietz, Laurel Lucia, Alexis Manzanilla, and Nari Rhee have analyzed the potential impacts of Medicaid cuts on California and the importance of the Medi-Cal program to our state. View their recent publications.
“If the full effect of tariffs comes into place, and if the labor market indicators continue to show weakness and eventually more significant downturn, then I don’t see how those future tax benefits will help workers right now or for the rest of the year,” Lopezlira said.
“None of this is controversial,” Bernhardt said. “Workers should have the right to know which systems their employer is using, and they have the right to expect that it’s a human, not an algorithm, that is making critical decisions impacting their economic future.”
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for the position of Health Care Program Director.
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Policy Researcher in the Low-Wage Work Team
