Citlalli Chávez-Nava

The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake The fires burned through a haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices. Rebuilding may be out of reach for many.

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Community archive project documents historic UC strike The UAW Fair UC Now Campaign Archive was collected by a cohort of UAW-member fellows led by the UCLA IRLE

In fall 2022, tens of thousands of academic workers across the UC system joined forces to carry out the largest strike in U.S. higher education history. To document the historic strike, the UCLA IRLE and UAW 4811 launched an archival research initiative in spring 2023 ⬇️
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This 🦃 day think about Vicente and all farmworkers

There is no such thing as “unskilled labor.” All labor is skilled and has value.

Looking around for Dr. Lucy Jones on here…is she here yet?

It’s happening! The UCLA Labor Center is in the Bluesky house @uclalabor.bsky.social ! This is the tipping point for my BSky experience. Let the high quality labor content roll!

An article I got to collaborate on with the @uclalabor.bsky.social awhile back! We found that creative policy strategies are needed to address the time theft within today's unstable retail scheduling.

Hi, everyone! I created a labor and workers' rights starter pack. It's a work in progress; I searched for many people who don't seem to be on here yet. Anyhow, I hope it's helpful. I've marked it started pack #1; I'll do a followup if people send me some suggestions. go.bsky.app/8cTBrjP

Recent scholarship on retail scheduling points to “time theft” through erratic and on-demand schedules. Employer control of worker time at and away from work sequesters time that would be spent on family, self, and others income options. That time has real value: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....