This month, we’re celebrating a partner we truly love  – Ethix Merch, which marks 20 years of doing merch differently! Launched in 2006 out of the anti-sweatshop movement, Ethix has spent two decades proving that promotional products can reflect our values, supporting dignified labor, ethical supply chains, and environmental care, instead of undermining them. From the beginning, they refused to cut corners on ethics, …

On April 14th, Buy Your Values will host an official LA Climate Week event at UCLA. As part of the event, BYV will launch a new app just for UCLA students, in collaboration with GetGreen. The app will help students monitor and reduce their carbon footprint and take other tangible actions to reduce their environmental footprint. Because of BYV’s focus …

As part of CEPA’s ongoing commitment to ethical purchasing and economic justice, we are excited to deepen our partnership with Capeltic Coffee, a collaboration we will be highlighting more intentionally in early 2026. In early January, Daniel Cardoza, CEO of Ethix Merch and a CEPA partner, traveled to Chiapas, Mexico to visit Capeltic at its source. Capeltic is part of Yomol A’Tel, a consortium of …

Over the past month, the Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance celebrated strong progress through our November Slowvember campaign and an organized presence at the Ignatian Family Teach-in in Washington DC. In Slowvember’s first year, individuals and institutions committed to slowing down consumption and prioritizing care for workers and the planet, resulting in 27 individual pledges and 28 institutional registrations, including high …

Klara Parang is a student at UCLA, where she serves on an environmental justice student committee in partnership with the Buy Your Values UCLA campaign. Labor 411 Editor, Sahid Fawaz, talked with Klara about her work on campus to promote ethical purchasing. SF: Can you give us some background on your role with USAC and the Buy Your Values UCLA …

This year’s Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice, held on the 36th anniversary of the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador, brought thousands of students and justice advocates to Washington, D.C. for its 28th year. Over the weekend, participants immersed themselves in education, reflection, and community, then carried that energy to Capitol Hill to advocate for migration and ecological justice. The Catholic …

Santa Clara University has become the first university in the United States to introduce Capeltic coffee on campus, connecting students and staff directly with an Indigenous cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico. Beginning this fall, the Cadence Cyber Café in Lucas Hall will serve Capeltic’s ethically and sustainably sourced, origin-roasted coffee—an initiative especially meaningful for members of the Santa Clara community who …

We learned with great sadness this week that Kent Wong, former director of the UCLA Labor Center and member of the Labor 411 Foundation Board of Directors, passed away. Wong was an activist, leader, and brother in the labor movement. After he joined the UCLA Labor Center in 1991, he grew the program from three employees to over 40. His …

We want to give a BIG thank you to the thousands of union brothers and sisters who came out to Union Night on Saturday at Dodger Stadium.  Los Angeles County Firefighters, IAFF Local 1014 President Dave Gillotte provided the honor of throwing the first pitch! He was joined on the field by Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO President …