UC Berkeley's Labor Center spearheaded the creation of this important document that must be distributed to California high school students applying for work permits. It is available in six languages and can be printed out or shared digitally.

Students become participants in a Town Hall and NLRB Election.

California law AB 800 requires high schools to teach students their rights as workers. We have the curriculum to support teachers and students as they engage in Workplace Readiness Week during the first week of May.

California’s Future is Clocked In: The Experiences of Young Workers is a report created by the UCLA Labor Center with the support of the Stuart Foundation. The report examines the critical contributions of young people in our state’s economy and the realities they face in the workforce.

The entire Collective Bargaining Project Curriculum is available here: https://www.cft.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/workplace-issues-and-collective-bargaining-in-the-classroom-curricula.pdf?1648772542

The CFT collection of high school curricula centered on climate change and labor history.

Elementary and middle school lesson plans that allow younger students to engage in climate change and social justice issues.

The UCLA Labor Center’s Young Worker curriculum: https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Young-Worker-Curriculum-3.2020.pdf

UC Berkeley’s Young Workers Project- https://youngworkers.org

The Department of Labor’s site on workers’ rights: https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/node-184/nlrb-flyer-627.pdf