UCSD Community Labor Project
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The UCSD Labor Project is intended to build a bridge between UCSD and the Larger San Diego Community through community based research.
Mission Statement: who we are and what is our vision
The Community and Labor Project (CLP) is dedicated to ensure that the institution/university works for the greater San Diego community under the principles of research justice and equitable participation based on the needs of workers and marginalized community members. We recognize that research has historically enabled colonialism and systems
07/10/2019
We are excited to announce a ground-breaking new co-authored article with our partner CIEJ exposing the negative impacts of lithium batteries and electric vehicles on Indigenous peoples and finite water sources in Science for the People Magazine!
We explain why lithium batteries and electric cars exploit Indigenous peoples and threaten sacred waters, how they actually create more carbon emissions that gas vehicles, and why they are not justice-centered solutions for climate change. We also define a decolonial feminist science practice and present a call to action for researchers and scientists who want to challenge capitalism and support repatriating land and life to Indigenous peoples.
Please share and help us get the word out! Also, if you have connections to any media outlets that would like to explore these critical analyses of the green new deal, green tech, and greenwashing capitalism - connect with us!!!
No Comemos Baterías: Solidarity Science Against False Climate Change Solutions - Science for the People Magazine It’s rush hour in San Diego, California. A continuous flood of headlights flows over Highway 8, an interstate freeway running east-west over what used to be the largest freshwater river system in San Diego County. Members of CIEJ, the San Diego-based Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Just...
03/24/2019
in San Diego, what transborder students face daily just trying to get to school:
Immigration Officials Sn**ch 9-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Heading To School, Hold Her For 2 Days "I was scared. I was completely by myself," says sobbing fourth-grader.
09/19/2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/18/mcdonalds-strike-sexual-harassment-me-too/
McDonald’s Workers Are Striking Against Sexual Harassment — Tying #MeToo to Their Labor Struggle The McDonald's workers' strike will be the first nationwide strike specifically targeting sexual harassment in the workplace.
06/28/2018
from our colleague at Center on Policy Initiatives:
Janus v. Black Families – Kyra R. Greene – Medium As I was preparing to start my new teaching job at San Diego State University in the fall of 2007, I got a call from my father. It was an…
06/27/2018
Supreme Court Issues Devastating Ruling Against Labor Unions The Janus v. AFSCME decision means the entire U.S. public sector will now be "right to work," and the political ramifications will be felt for years to c...
05/21/2018
we will continue to post and follow this issue and its impact on workers rights
Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers' Rights The high court ruled for the first time that workers may not band together to challenge violations of federal labor laws.
03/20/2018
teachers say student evals demonstrate gender and racial discrimination and should not be used as a basis for hiring and promotion.
Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professors. They’re Discriminatory. And that means they’re illegal.
11/27/2017
Almost all the US jobs created since 2005 are temporary A full-time job is increasingly rare.
10/18/2017
Join the UCSD Community and Labor Project at this two-day symposium on teaching, education, and refugee communities. Professional development credit recognized by San Diego Unified School District is available for K-12 and university educators who wish to attend.
register for the conference by clicking on the symposium website:
https://refugeeteaching.wordpress.com
then click on the registration tab. All events and meals are free but we need the registration info in order to provide enough meals.
Refugee Teaching November 3 - 4, 2017 - City Heights
09/07/2017
Many prison work programs train prisoners for jobs they cannot apply to upon release and their lack of a living wage salary while in prison undercuts the wages of nonprison firefighters. Yet another way that prison-based worker exploitation is not rehabilitation but slavery.
are raging in Los Angeles and all along the west coast – and incarcerated people are the ones putting their lives on the line.
Read The New York Times new article "The Incarcerated Women Who Fight California's Wildfires": goo.gl/PRaUet
08/16/2017
many unions are creating their own cooperatives to locate new clients. taxi drivers in San Diego have started a worker owned dispatch. and domestic workers in San Diego have launched a union-run client match service (link below). Many worker centers offer match services to connect clients with landscaping and day laborers as well. These services help protect workers from wage theft and abusive middle men.
How have you seen unions and worker centers utilize coops in your area?
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UCSD Community And Labor Project Department Of Ethnic Studies University Of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, M/C/0522
La Jolla, CA
92093