UCI Labor Center

Welcome to the UCI Labor Center! Workers are at the center of our outward-facing programs, research, and labor education. Through our work, we tackle the economic and social challenges facing working people and their families, raise up their accomplishments, and connect to their struggles for dignity and respect on the job. In our first year, we will launch UCI’s first-ever Labor Summer, a full-time paid internship program for UCI students that pairs them with a labor union or worker organization. Stay tuned as we develop more programming, research, and engagement opportunities that forward our mission of advancing workers’ rights and a worker-centered economy. As the inaugural faculty director, I am incredibly excited by the center’s potential to foster new ideas, new leaders, and new partnerships to improve the lives of working families in Orange County and beyond. Onward!

Virginia Parks

The UCI Labor Center is excited to announce our 2024 class of Labor Summer interns! These 12 interns represent a diverse group of majors and backgrounds, tied together by their experience and passion for the labor movement and community organizing. This is the 2nd annual group of students to participate in the state-wide internship program along with other UC campuses. This program allows students to gain experience and connect with working people through the labor movement and community organizations.