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Recycling Workers Fight Back

…The first project of the Campaign for Sustainable Recycling will be a series of free health and safety workshops for 150 recycling workers over the next seven months, conducted by UC Berkeley’s Labor...

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Gov. Brown names Berkeley lawyer and worker safety expert to head Cal/OSHA

Gov. Brown appointed former LOHP specialist, Juliann Sum, as the new chief of the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. Sum has been acting chief of Cal/OSHA since September 2013 and...

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A Focus on the Underground Economy: Resources for Workers and Employers

Helen Chen and Suzanne Teran of LOHP are working with the state’s Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF) to implement an outreach and education project targeting workers and employers in the underground...

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UC workers’ union members commemorate 2 UC employees at vigil

Marking International Workers’ Memorial Day on Tuesday, 20 students, campus employees and UC workers’ union members held a vigil outside California Hall to commemorate two UC employees who died in...

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California Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment hearing

LOHP’s Alejandra Domenzain gave testimony before the California Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment hearing on Latino worker health and safety. Highlights from her testimony include: the...

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San Diego Janitors, Security Guards March Against Workplace Sexual Assault...

Hundreds of people, mostly immigrant women, marched in downtown San Diego for International Women’s Day on Tuesday. They sought to raise awareness about workplace harassment and sexual assault of...

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San Diego Janitors March To Raise Awareness About Workplace Sexual Assault...

Guests: Helen Chen, coordinator of public programs at the Labor Occupational Health Program at University of California, Berkeley Genoveva Aguilar, organizer, Service Employees International Union...

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California’s Janitors, Security Guards Face ‘Inferior Working Conditions’

…“Janitors and security officers tend to work alone at night in empty buildings and are isolated from almost everyone except their immediate supervisor,” said Helen Chen, co-author of the study and...

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