This year United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) scored a historic victory including caps on charter schools and class sizes, funds for hiring more counselors, librarians and nurses, and a 6 percent wage increase. The LA teachers showed that even in a post-Janus world member-to-member organizing can transform a union of 34,000 workers into a militant strike force.
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Earning your master’s degree in Labor Studies at the UMass Labor Center puts you right at the center of the issues and debates around labor, work, and social justice.
For over fifty years, we have built one of the premiere graduate programs in Labor Studies in the United States. With a near 100% placement record, our graduates are in high demand to join our over 1,000 alumni in key position in the labor movement and social justice organizations.
Labor is changing. As the attacks on labor have intensified, unions have been taking bold new directions. They have also combined efforts with a wide variety of alt-labor organizations, building strong connections with new social movements in broad-based coalitions for justice. Become one of our graduates who are at the forefront of many of these new and exciting developments to build justice and dignity in the workplace and the community, here and abroad.
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It is time for us to continue the important work of training the next generation of labor leaders. Organized labor is under attack, but we are fighting back and winning: at Marriott, in Los Angeles, and across this country.
To continue that work, we must recruit, train, and place promising activists throughout the movement. To that end, the UMass Amherst Labor Center is now accepting applications to the incoming class of our residential and limited residency (ULA) Master’s programs.
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The Labor Center is thrilled to announce that we have received a $15,000 grant from Mass Humanities to support, "Visions of Labor: Film and Worker Voices.” This project, in Mass Humanities' words, "aims to help local workers see their work lives as worthy of attention and part of a historical trajectory in which they are agents."
Upcoming Events
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Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 10:00am to Sunday, November 10, 2019 - 5:00pm
Visions of Labor: Film and Worker Stories is a multi-faceted project that employs the power of worker stories, told through film and video, to inspire reflection and creative action. Put November 9-10, 2019 on your calendar.
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