labor

a collage showing images of dozes of people involved with the Labor Occupational Health Program from over the years

Politics & society

Labor Occupational Health Program celebrates 50 years of advancing safe jobs and worker justice

The program, at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, remains devoted to its mission: promoting safe, healthy and just workplaces.

A portrait of a smiling woman with a red blazer next to a cover a book called The Burnout Challenge.

Campus & community

Burned out? Berkeley expert’s book offers roadmap to a better workplace

students throung through Sther Gate at UC Berkeley as in-person classes resume

Campus & community

How UC Berkeley is moving beyond the strike

students

Campus & community

Information on the ongoing strike at UC Berkeley

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In bilingual children’s book, a young girl fights for immigrant and labor rights

two people and a child in Bangladesh sort through mountains of plastic bottles

Recycling isn’t what we thought it was. So, what now?

Woman wearing anti-virus mask feeds infant in a day-care setting

Worries about COVID-19 divide along racial, ethnic lines, state poll finds

A staff member at Rockridge Little School in Oakland, California, uses a quiet moment to disinfect tables used by preschool students.

California child care system collapsing under COVID-19, Berkeley report says

Child care worker with young children

Bruce Fuller: How to build a caring economy for post-pandemic California

Worker in California farm field harvesting eggplant

Poll finds broad support for farmworkers who labor through pandemic

Child care worker with young children

Pandemic puts California child care centers “on the brink,” says new report

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Election 2020: The pandemic changes everything

a black man walks down the street in new york city

COVID-19’s unequal toll on black Americans: A Q&A with Tina Sacks

Berkeley Conversations

COVID-19: Economic impact, human solutions

A lone woman, wearing a medical mask, walks past shuttered storefronts in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-10 pandemic in the United States.

Economic fix: Deliver aid to as many as possible — fast

An empty Chicago streetscape during the COVID-19 shutdown

COVID-19 stimulus is a good start, but more is needed, says Berkeley economist