Diane Factor
Diane Factor is the founding director of the Worker Education and Resource Center (WERC). She retired in 2020 after 21 years of service. WERC is a non-profit labor-management partnership with the Service Employees International Union Local 721. Factor was a consultant for the County of Los Angeles from 1999 to 2004 and a program manager at the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program from 1991 to 1999. Factor was an industrial hygienist at AFL-CIO from 1987 to 1991 and an industrial hygiene compliance officer at the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health from 1982 to 1987.
Fighting for Safe Jobs, Coda: Return to Terminal Island
What L.A.’s harbor looks like today.
Fighting for Safe Jobs, Part Five: After the Explosion
Who bears the risk—and who must pay—when there’s a serious workplace accident?
Fighting for Safe Jobs, Part Four: Becoming a COSHista
Recalling an early win against fruit fly fumigants.
Fighting for Safe Jobs, Part Three: Back to the Beginning
How driving a school bus in Pasadena led to a lifetime of workplace advocacy.
