[Sehefac] Please Sign on to support UC Labor Centers (due NOON, Tues, 5/21)

[Ellen Reese]

Dear University Faculty and Staff,


We write with an urgent appeal for your support of University of California
labor research and education programs that are facing devastating cuts in
the Governor’s proposed budget for 2024-25. Please sign our letter of
support
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1F48G-Yh_nHuZ4-1G2vsx2evQW9tdy40J32tiplrb138/viewform?edit_requested=true>
and share this appeal with colleagues.


In his May revision of the 2024-25 budget, released earlier this week,
Governor Newsom proposes stripping $13 million from the UC budget allocated
to support labor research and education programs, current and
newly-established UC Labor Centers, labor and occupational health programs,
and labor studies degree programs across 9 UC campuses. The cut of $13
million would cripple ongoing efforts to establish new programs across the
UC system that serve organized labor, working-class communities, and
policymakers with policy research for a more equitable economy. The cuts
would also stifle efforts to hire faculty with labor research expertise and
develop robust degree and certificate programs that serve the needs of
diverse UC students.


California workers have been on the frontlines of intensifying,
twenty-first century global economic and environmental challenges, such as
climate change and automation. The UC Labor Centers and labor safety and
health programs have provided critical research, policy and worker
education to advance worker rights, working conditions and shared
prosperity for all. With the recent historic deficit, we need now—more than
ever—to invest in our future by informing sound policy that will secure the
lives of workers and working families that power the world’s fifth largest
economy.

The elimination of this funding will severely curtail, and in some cases
end, ongoing work to address the state’s most pressing current and future
challenges facing the future of work in California, and train new
generations of researchers, policymakers, and public servants across the
state’s diverse regions.

We urge you to sign our letter to lawmakers urging the continued funding of
the UC labor programs. You can sign the letter by clicking on the link
embedded HERE
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9dUbNkVOy1kIBhW4mtrJGoXvXPizBqw1N99ZOovU_E7Z6Mg/viewform>.
Please sign by Tuesday, May 21 at noon and please share it widely.


Thank you,


Tobias Higbie, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Steven Raphael, UC Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Leticia M. Saucedo, UC Davis Center for Labor and Community

Virginia Parks, UC Irvine Labor Center

Edward Flores, UC Merced Community and Labor Center

Marissa Brookes, UC Riverside Inland Empire Labor and Community Center

Ellen Reese, UC Riverside Inland Empire Labor and Community Center

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, UC Santa Barbara Community Labor Project

Miriam Greenberg, UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community

Steven McKay, UC Santa Cruz Center for Labor and Community

Lilly Irani, UC San Diego Labor Center
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