UCLA educator speaks March 7 on immigrant organizing

Educator and activist Kent Wong will speak Wednesday, March 7, at the University of Minnesota on the efforts of immigrant workers to organize into unions.

Wong’s presentation, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., will be held in Room 330 of Blegen Hall on the university’s West Bank Minneapolis campus. It will be followed by a strategy session for organizers. Both are free and open to the public.

Wong is director of the Center for Labor Research and Education at University of California-Los Angeles, where he teaches labor studies and Asian American studies. Previously, he worked for six years as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union Local 660, representing 40,000 Los Angeles County workers.

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His talk will focus on the efforts of immigrant communities in Los Angeles to organize.

Wong currently serves as president of the United Association for Labor Education, a national professional association of labor educators. From 1992 to 1997, he served as the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, the first nationwide Asian American labor organization within the AFL-CIO.

His talk is sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Labor and Working Class Studies, the Minnesota AFL-CIO and the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service.

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