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UC Berkeley Labor Center
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The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders. We also engage UC Berkeley students in learning about the labor movement.
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Health Access California @healthaccess.bsky.social · 6d
We’re at the annual Health Care conference hosted by @capitolweekly.bsky.social. Our @thewallner.bsky.social joined @jodihicks.bsky.social of @ppactionca.bsky.social, @mirandadz.bsky.social of @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social, & more to discuss the devastating impact of H.R. 1 on our health care access.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 21h
Report looking at wages & economic challenges for workers & families in Alameda & Contra Costa Counties during the recovery from the COVID-19 recession. Workers had real wage growth, but many still struggled to make ends meet in 2021-2023. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/state-of-wor...
The State of Working East Bay, 2021-2023
This report is the second in a series of reports looking at wages, living conditions, and economic challenges for workers and their families in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. It finds that while E...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 6d
Our Low-Wage Work Program is hiring a Research & Policy Associate. Learn more:
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Job Opening: Research & Policy Associate, Low-Wage Work Program (Assistant/ Associate/ Full Specialist)
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Research & Policy Associate in the Low-Wage Work Team.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 12d
We just released a major overhaul of our online policy guide to major laws, bills, and concepts in the regulation of workplace technologies–including developments from the 2025 legislative session.
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The Current Landscape of Tech and Work Policy in the U.S.: A Guide to Key Laws, Bills, and Concepts
Updated September 2025. An overview of current U.S. public policy that regulates employers’ use of digital workplace technologies.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 13d
Exciting new developments in our Green Economy Program! We welcome two new senior researchers, Betony Jones and Josh Sonnenfeld. Plus, updates on our refinery transition work in Contra Costa and projects aimed at growing a high-road green economy in CA. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/the-labor-ce...
The Labor Center's Green Economy Program is growing!
We welcome two new senior researchers, Betony Jones and Josh Sonnenfeld.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 19d
Unions are articulating a vision for how AI & other digital technologies should be developed and used in the workplace. We analyzed 17 of these documents by 15 organizations and identified key values being put forward. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-first-look...
A First Look at Labor’s AI Values: An analysis of recent statements about technology by unions and other worker organizations
A first look at labor’s vision of what the future of AI and digital technologies should look like.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 21d
With its scale and visibility, NYC has the potential to set a national standard for improving labor conditions in the security services industry. Read the study: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/demographic-...
Demographic and Job Characteristics of NYC’s Security Guard Workforce
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 h...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 21d
We looked at the wages and turnover of NYC security guards. Our study found they earn a median income of $40,311—less than 40% of the city’s Area Median Income, even though the vast majority work full time and full year.
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NYC security guards making a fraction of a livable wage, study finds | amNewYork
A new study of New York City security guards paints a picture of workers wearing shiny uniforms who are facing financial insecurity due to low wages.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 26d
Register by Sep 16 for our 6-week online course Skills to Win. Designed to build high-participation organizations & prepare groups to win on any campaign, whether in a workplace, apartment building, neighborhood, neighborhood, school, or city. Learn more: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/workshop/ski...
Skills to Win
Join us once a week for two hours on Zoom for the Skills to Win workshop, which focuses on how to build high participation organizations. October 9-November 13, 2025.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 28d
TONIGHT! Sept 10, 6pm, Alameda CLC: Chicago Teachers Union Pres Stacy Davis Gates on how decades of bold organizing have led to the possibility for transformational change, powered by alignment between labor unions, community organizers & governing power. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/stacy-...
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates speaking on unapologetically bold worker and community organizing
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates will offer her reflections on how decades of unapologetically bold worker and community organizing in Chicago have led to a unique moment of possibil...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 29d
Wed, Sept 10, 6pm at Alameda CLC: Chicago Teachers Union Pres Stacy Davis Gates on how decades of bold organizing have led to the possibility for transformational change, powered by alignment between labor unions, community organizers & governing power. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/stacy-...
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates speaking on unapologetically bold worker and community organizing
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates will offer her reflections on how decades of unapologetically bold worker and community organizing in Chicago have led to a unique moment of possibil...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 5
Come hear Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates in Oakland next week!
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Chicago Teachers Union Pres Stacy Davis Gates on bold worker & community organizing
Event in Oakland, CA by UC Berkeley Labor Center on Wednesday, September 10 2025
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 3
“Important rules and regulations that were put in place during the Biden administration that were helpful to workers—those are systematically being rolled back,” said Enrique Lopezlira, director of the Low-Wage Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
'Moment of crisis': Unions in somber mood this Labor Day
California's unions face mounting pressure to protect their members from the Trump administration's immigration raids, cuts in Medicaid services and a weakened National Labor Relations Board.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 3
Belated Labor Day article from LA Times: "Unions face mounting pressure to protect their members from the Trump administration’s immigration raids, cuts in Medicaid services and a weakened National Labor Relations Board." www.latimes.com/business/sto...
'Moment of crisis': Unions in somber mood this Labor Day
California's unions face mounting pressure to protect their members from the Trump administration's immigration raids, cuts in Medicaid services and a weakened National Labor Relations Board.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 2
@elopezlira.bsky.social: Despite the headwinds—housing, health care affordability, technology, AI—California unions show resiliency in continuing to seek and find innovative ways to help workers. capitalandmain.com/unions-are-s...
Unions Are Shrinking Nationwide — But Not in California
Organizing here is holding strong, showing what’s possible even as Trump 2.0 makes the fight harder.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 2
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Policy Researcher in the Low-Wage Work Team. First review date is September 11. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/job-opening-...
Job Opening: Policy Researcher, Low-Wage Work Team (Assistant/ Associate Specialist)
The UC Berkeley Labor Center seeks applications for a Policy Researcher in the Low-Wage Work Team
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Sep 2
Register by Sep 3 for our 6-week online course Skills to Win. Designed to build high-participation organizations and prepare groups to win on any campaign, whether in a workplace, apartment building, neighborhood, neighborhood, school, or city. Learn more: laborcenter.berkeley.edu/workshop/ski...
Skills to Win
Join us once a week for two hours on Zoom for the Skills to Win workshop, which focuses on how to build high participation organizations. October 9-November 13, 2025.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · Aug 31
“The future is not inevitable. There are a lot of choices that people can make along the road.”

So good to see @mishal-khan.bsky.social of @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social get a spotlight from @sfexaminer.bsky.social! Check out this great interview: www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...
Labor, leaders seek AI ‘rules of the road’
Researcher tracking laws says moment “a new frontier.”
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 29
This piece by @markkreidler.bsky.social in @capitalandmain.bsky.social does a great job of putting our State of the Unions report in context. A must read as we enter Labor Day weekend.
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Unions Are Shrinking Nationwide — But Not in California
Organizing here is holding strong, showing what’s possible even as Trump 2.0 makes the fight harder.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 28
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Best states to work 2025: DC, California top the list, while North Carolina, Mississippi lag far behind
Oxfam’s 2025 index highlights federal and state-level backsliding on labor policy against the backdrop of an increasingly regressive second Trump administration
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 28
TODAY! Join us for the annual UC Berkeley Labor Center Open House! Eat snacks, hear from Labor Center researchers and partners about their work, and build community. August 28 from 4:00 - 6:00 PM at 2521 Channing Way. RSVP at tinyurl.com/F25OH-RSVP
Graphic for the Labor Center Open House, featuring a photo of students supporting an IWW strike at Urban Ore. The overall effect is engaging and action-oriented. The graphic includes details about the event, which can be found in the post.
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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · Aug 27
NEW: Days after Rose Lane employees filed a union petition, the entire staff lost their jobs. @hikarimaehida.bsky.social and I reported this important story for Labor New York. Many thanks to our profs+editors, @bgrueskin.bsky.social and @juanmabenitez.bsky.social medium.com/labor-new-yo...
“They Just Fired Everyone.” Staff at Midtown Hotel Bar Lose Jobs Days After Union Filing
Workers said they were terminated after they sought to organize for better benefits and working conditions.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26
California SB 7 is part of unions' push to establish worker protections related to businesses’ use of artificial intelligence and similar tools, said Annette Bernhardt, director of the technology and work program at the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center.
Punching In: Courts Find Little Transparency on Federal Firings
Courts can’t quite get a straight answer on who exactly has been fired from the federal workforce under the Trump administration. Plus, California is inching towards more AI protections for workers in...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26
Come hear Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Gates talk about fearless organizing. This should be insightful and inspiring! laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/stacy-...
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates speaking on unapologetically bold worker and community organizing
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates will offer her reflections on how decades of unapologetically bold worker and community organizing in Chicago have led to a unique moment of possibil...
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · Aug 26
"UC Berkeley Labor Center economist Enrique Lopezlira said the benefits of those narrowly targeted tax breaks will likely be outweighed by the costs of Trump’s other economic policies."

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Trump’s Policies Are Adding Up to a Hostile Work Environment
A flurry of actions, from mass layoffs and ICE raids to union-busting and tariffs, are straining U.S. workers and fueling uncertainty.
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