Author Archives: Ari Bloomekatz

University police are continuing an investigation of facilities management, after an employee and a manager of a local tool shop were both arrested in an alleged scheme involving the theft of thousands of dollars worth of university tools. Authorities said the arrests may be the result of a series of burglaries that could have begun […]

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in the world. It generates hundreds of billions of dollars in sales each year and employs millions of workers both at home and abroad. But at a conference Saturday sponsored by the UCLA Labor Center, critics declared the one-stop shopping megastore was not good for America. Held in Ackerman Union, […]

SONOMA “”mdash; Escaping the sweltering Sonoma County sun during his 30-minute Friday lunch break, 60-year-old Domingo Garcia stopped eating his meal of oranges, strawberries, a large cucumber and burrito to explain why students should know about the recent struggle between the United Farm Workers and E.&J. Gallo Winery. “It’d be good if they got an […]

A small handful of students are trying to create a new student group focusing on farm workers, a population seemingly far away from the urban noise, traffic and bustle of Los Angeles. Fourth-year Chicana/o studies student Miguel Enriquez said he joined the group, UCLA for Farm Workers, because most students don’t see the connections between […]

Much of California’s agricultural workforce is undocumented, a chronic problem for both unions and growers that resulted in an unlikely bipartisan plan to legalize the workforce. The Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act of 2005, or AgJobs, would give undocumented agricultural workers across the nation the opportunity to apply for temporary resident status, and […]

On a scorching Friday afternoon, the UCLA Downtown Labor Center seems bustling. There are meetings going on in different conference rooms, members of a local union stream in and out, and the directors and staff all seem to be working on different projects. But activity is not unusual for the center. Less than five minutes […]

After a 45-minute drive north through traffic on the 405 Freeway along a labyrinth of other highways and roads winding away from campus, about 12 undergraduates went to another class last Wednesday ““ only this time they were the teachers. The students are part of one of the Community Service Commission’s projects, Bruins Reforming Incarceration […]