<div dir="ltr">Dear Political Science Graduate Students,<div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Prof. Ellen Reese (Sociology) and I are part of a statewide effort to support the expansion of Labor Research and Education within the University of California as we enter the final months of California budget negotiations. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">We hope that this will provide much needed financial support to expand capacity at UC Riverside and other UC campuses. If successful, it could help us to create a UC Labor Center at UCR, which would facilitate</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> more applied labor research and education projects in the Inland Empire and surrounding areas. <b>If you are willing, please consider signing <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFIVwa6i9TwdWBFtKSSwE_sBh9YKZ8SvWuPyi32-AhfVGZCA/viewform" target="_blank">this sign-on letter</a></b> and </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">sharing this with any colleagues, allies, organizations, and list-serves that you think might support this effort too. All interested individuals and organizations are welcome to sign it (as either an individual or an organization). I appreciate you taking the time to consider adding your name.</span></div><div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><br></div>MB</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. See below for more information on the University of California Worker Rights Policy Collaborative and for the content of the letter (also attached).</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000">-----------------<br></font><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Friends and Allies:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Merced Labor Centers and related institutes, along with the labor occupational safety and health programs, are seeking the support of the California Legislature to allocate $12 million in ongoing annual funding to expand labor research, education and service throughout the University of California. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We are requesting your support for this<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></span></b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HnD1gd5Ks9u4PpBKIrVfu-FEzOF7mKyV/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116923181254914982441&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">linked sign-on letter</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> which speaks to why the elected leadership of the State of California should support this new University of California Worker Rights Policy Collaborative. </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The much-needed additional funding will be put to work immediately to address the state’s most pressing current and future challenges facing the future of work in California, and will help to train new generations of researchers, policymakers, and public servants. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Could you please add your name, title, and organization to this campaign of support for the $12 million allocation?</span></b><a href="https://forms.gle/muQX88EWvyUw9qud7" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Please use this google form to officially endorse the letter.</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For individual signers, the letter will indicate that titles and organizations are listed for identification purposes only. Let us know if we can list your organization as a supporter as well. If you want a sample resolution to help secure the support of your organization, email your request or any questions to: </span><a href="mailto:larry.frank.00@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">larry.frank.00@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steven Raphael, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abel Valenzuela, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ken Jacobs, UC Berkeley Labor Center</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ana Padilla, UC Merced Community and Labor Center</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laura Stock, UCB Labor Occupational Health Program</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000">Kevin Riley, UCLA Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000">---------</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a name="m_-2444704346728258529__heading=h.gjdgxs"></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Governor Gavin Newsom</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Senate Budget Chair Nancy Skinner</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Senate Budget Sub-committee on Education Chair John Laird</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Assembly Budget Sub-committee on Education Chair Kevin McCarty</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Re: Funding for University of California Worker Rights Policy Collaborative</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;border:none;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Governor Gavin Newsom, President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senators Nancy Skinner and John Laird, and Assembly Members Phil Ting and Kevin McCarty:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The following organizations and individuals are writing to support the statewide request for a $12 million ongoing annual augmentation of state funding to expand labor research and education at the University of California.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The COVID-19 pandemic amplified long-standing disparities as Black, Latinx, low-wage, immigrant, and women workers faced greater losses of income and exposure to workplace hazards with little to no safety net. The pandemic also accelerated low-road approaches to economic development such as subcontracting, temporary, and gig work that significantly lowered wages and reduced workers’ economic security and bargaining power. We must address these challenges with evidence-based policy solutions that center working people, and collaborations with California worker organizations and agencies that support workers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">While there are six major business and management schools within the University of California, funding for labor research and education is very small in comparison. The $12 million would be split between the established Labor Centers at UC Berkeley ($2 million), UCLA ($2 million), UC Merced ($2 million), Institutes for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley ($1 million) and UCLA ($1 million), the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program ($500,000), the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program ($500,000) and to support new initiatives on the other six UC campuses ($3 million).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Labor Centers and the Labor Safety and Health programs have been under-resourced, but have a distinguished track record of research excellence, deep community engagement, and careful financial management. Their policy research, technical assistance, and training programs played an important role in supporting the California Dream Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); expanding Medi-Cal to all Californians regardless of immigration status; expanding the California Earned Income Tax Credit to undocumented immigrant worker households; Incubating Black Worker Centers; establishing California’s Secure Choice retirement program; raising the minimum wage and labor standards in the state and improving enforcement; developing a Jobs and Climate Action Plan as requested by the state legislature; and strengthening the expanding High Road Training Partnerships, to name a few examples.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These established programs, in cooperation with the California Labor Federation and faculty and research staff on other UC Campuses, will modernize and develop UC labor research and education to understand and help guide emerging 21st century economic changes in the Inland Empire, the Sacramento region, the Santa Cruz/Monterrey region, the Central Coast, San Diego, Orange County and all of California in partnership with our UC campuses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Your support for this statewide request would </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">strengthen the future of UC labor research and education in the world’s fifth largest economy to advance labor and employment policy, workforce development, a more worker-centered economy, and the education and the training of future generations of researchers, policymakers and public servants</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sincerely,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">--</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Marissa Brookes</span><br></div>Associate Professor<br>Department of Political Science<br>University of California, Riverside<br>Watkins 2223<br>(951) 827-5510</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>