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Report on refinery closure provides guide for changing economy

A new report by Virginia Parks, professor of urban planning and public policy, documents the difficult post-layoff job search and working conditions of hundreds of California fossil fuel workers in the aftermath of the 2020 closure of the Marathon Martinez oil refinery in Contra Costa County, providing an illuminating case study of the perils and needs of workers.…

Anteaters complete Labor Summer internships

Whether they were on the picket lines with hospitality workers, researching policy or helping to organize workers, the inaugural group of UC Irvine Labor Summer interns gained valuable lessons on the purpose of unions and experience that they plan to apply in their future endeavors.

UC Irvine Labor Center Opens on Campus

The University of California, Irvine has opened a new campus center that will provide timely and policy-relevant labor research, will educate the next generation of labor and community leaders, and will advance labor and workers’ rights initiatives.

UCI Labor Center has New Director

Christopher Duarte envisions a world where Orange County workers and employers reap a mutually beneficial future. The former vice president and chief operations officer of Workers United Local 50, the union that represents Disneyland employees, has begun his new job as director of the recently formed UCI Labor Center.

After a California refinery closed, laid-off fossil fuel workers got hit with a ‘gut punch’

Report: Laid off fossil fuel workers need support

What Happens When a Refinery Closes

A pair of researchers looked at what happened after the marathon refinery closed in 2020.345 people lost their jobs.