Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

WORKER SAFETY AND HEALTH FREE TRAINING

Presented by the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program SAFETY D A hands-on, interactive, and fun training empowering workers to take leadership roles in promoting health and safety in the workplace.

WHO: Worker leaders and advocates looking to obtain basic health and safety knowledge to apply at their workplace.

WHAT: You’ll get a free health and safety course binder, a chance to share ideas and strategies with workers from other industries, and a certificate of completion as a WOSH Specialist.

WHEN: April 27, 28, & 29, 2010. 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

WHERE:  SEIU ULTCW - Cesar Chavez Room, 2515 Beverly Blvd., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90057

** Parking across the street behind the building– First Come, First Serve

**Course requires commitment to attend all 3 full days of training.

Free continental breakfast and snacks provided!

LEARN ABOUT:

 Is your organization looking to hire full-time, part-time, interns, volunteers, or graduate researchers?

UCLA Social Justice NON-PROFIT CAREER FAIR

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

10-2pm

UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, (student union building, 2nd floor)

To register your organization, please click on the following link: http://www.labor.ucla.edu/minor/UCLASocialJusticeNONPROFITCAREERFAIR.htm...

Why attend the UCLA NONPROFIT CAREER fair? Get the best applicants: the future leaders for social change!!!!!

UCLA offers a Labor Studies Minor with close to 100 students enrolled! Over 350 students took our courses last year; where they analyzed workplace issues and the social, political and economic forces that influence it!
UCLA houses the Community Programs Office, where hundreds of student activists coordinate nationally renown student-initiated, student-led community service projects and student groups dedicated to the pursuit for social justice!
400+ potential employees, interns and volunteers attended last year!
The nonprofit career fair will consist of:

Come celebrate Labor History Week at the opening reception of the special showing of California labor history and art.  The first week of April in California is Labor History Week. Signed into law as AB 1900 (Nakano) in 2002, its purpose is to encourage schools "to commemorate this week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States."  The exhibition features panels from the California Labor History Exhibit* and posters from the project Tradeswomen Across the Next Generation (TANG).**  It will run through May 7, 2010. 

Sponsored by the 13th District Council Office of Council President Eric Garcetti, AFT Local 1521, UTLA Local 1021, California Federation of Teachers, Cal State Dominguez Hills Labor Studies Department, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, and the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute of the Los Angeles Community College District. Posters were funded by the California Council of the Humanities Story fund.

 On Saturday, March 6, 2010, labor scholars from around the country and faculty from the Los Angeles Community College district converged at a retreat held at Los Angeles Valley College to collaborate on ideas for advancing labor studies in the community colleges.  The program included special lectures by high profiles guests and a breakout session facilitated by labor and community organizers.

Speakers included Bill Fletcher, Jr., Mike Davis, Dolores Huerta, Kent Wong and Nelson Lichtenstein.  Introductions were given by Joanne Waddell, AFT Chapter President from Los Angeles Valley College, AFT 1521 President, Carl Friedlander and Los Angeles Trade-Technical College Labor Center Director, John McDowell.