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Today marks the graduation of an unlikely class of University of California at Los Angeles students, as twenty-six low-wage immigrant workers identified as potential leaders by the unions representing them finished up a one week seminar at the school?s Labor Center. The seminar for Spanish-speaking union members recognized for their grassroots efforts gave a brief background in labor history and focused on workplace strategies for organizing, mobilizing and bargaining. Similar training sessions are planned for Asian immigrant, African American, homosexual, and female workers who show promise as leaders in the labor movement, and like the session for Hispanic workers will be funded through the state sponsored Institute for Labor and Employment while each union makes up the wages of the members they send.