Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

 Jose Tello, attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLS) will be making a special presentation to students at LA Trade-Tech College on worker rights.  Mr. Tello will be presenting on wage/hour laws, breaks, leaves, and other workplace laws and will talk about NLS's work in the community.

The presentation/workshop will be in TE 221.

DHLI will be co-hosting a special workshop with faculty at LA Valley College on Opening Day.

Discover new ways to engage students by connecting what you teach to issues that affect them.  Presenters from the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, the Southern California Library, and LAVC will share creative strategies and resources for incorporating labor studies into your classes and developing new curriculum.  We will cover:

• How to get students interested in social justice issues and see the relevance of their educational experience to issues affecting their lives
• What Valley faculty are doing to enhance the learning experience 
• Resources faculty can use to enhance their classes and motivate students

  Remembering John Delloro

The first time I saw John he was wearing a dress and leading the crowd in a chant “Jessie Jesie you’re a mess. . . (I forget the rest of the chant) at a protest against clothing-maker Jessica McClintock for not paying her workers. He was energetic, charismatic, funny and politically very astute. The next time was when we both turned up outside—actually quite far outside—UCLA Chancellor Charles Young’s home in a gated community in the Santa Monica hills. It was a protest by SAGE (the Student Association of Graduate Employees) demanding that the university negotiate with their union. Again I was struck by John’s leadership—and drawn to that same wonderful mix of passion, intelligence and creativity.