Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

New Online Journal on Green Labor!

 “The Labor Movement has gone green!”   The National Labor College launches up-to-date information on new developments in green policy, technology and work processes from a labor perspective

The 2nd Biennial Labor Scholars Retreat March 6, 2010 (LAVC)

Featuring invited speakers leading labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein (author of The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business), Bill Fletcher (author of Solidarity Divided and editor of Black Commentator), and icon Dolores Huerta. San Jose City College Opens a Dolores Huerta Labor Institute! San Jose City College recently expanded the scope & reach of their labor studies program and renamed it the “Dolores Huerta Labor & Community Institute.”

Voices and Images Events!

 Author Susan Philips Speaks
In the Heart of Another: Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories
February 18, 2010   11am-1pm
Southwest College

Author Kent Wong Speaks
Talks about his new book on labor leader Miguel Contreras
March 9, 2010  1:45pm-3:45pm
East LA College

Film: The New Los Angeles and Director Lynn Goldfarb Speaks
Award winning film about contemporary LA
March 9, 2010  11am-2:15pm
LA Harbor College

DHLI Executive Director Honored as National Top #2 Asian American “Unsung Hero” for 2009

Dolores Huerta Labor Institute executive director John Delloro was honored as Top # 2 Asian American “Unsung Hero” for 2009 by Asian Pacific Americans for Progress.  Also, Mayor Villaraigosa recently appointed Delloro to the Taxicab Commission, which oversees the largely immigrant taxicab industry.

Classes This Spring

Sociology 35: Labor Movement (LAVC)

History 82: History of Working People (ELAC)

Labor Studies 4: Labor In America (LATTC)

English 101 (labor-themed) (WLAC)