College of Letters & Science
CLS Program faculty member Lola Loustaunau published a paper on wildcat strikes in 2020 by Latina apple pickers in Washington state, and she presented the results from the Wisconsin Farmworker Coalition’s community-driven survey project on April 1st. The Washington study examined the ways that the COVID-19 crisis moved the apple workers to strike after a …
The Chicanx & Latinx Studies Program proudly shares that Professor Armando Ibarra, former CLS Director, has been appointed by Governor Tony Evers to the Wisconsin Governor’s Council on Migrant Labor as a migrant representative. His term runs from November 26, 2025, through July 1, 2026. The Council brings together employer, migrant, and legislative representatives to …
A recent story by Pro Publica on the problems facing undocumented dairy workers in Wisconsin who cannot obtain driver’s licenses drew on needs assessment of Wisconsin’s farmworkers authored by CLS Professor Armando Ibarra and his colleague Alexia Kulwiec of the UW–Madison School for Workers. After the passage of the 2006 RealID act, Wisconsin stopped granting …
CLS Director Armando Ibarra is among the authors of a recent report from the UW–Madison School for Workers on workplace safety in Wisconsin during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, COVID-19 has devastated the lives of essential workers, their families and their communities. While many in the U.S. can work from home during …