The UC Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) was a multi-campus research program devoted to studying, and finding solutions for, problems of labor and employment in California and the nation. It expanded upon the existing Institutes of Industrial Relations (IIRs) at UC Berkeley and UCLA, which were founded in 1945, and upon the two Centers for Labor Research and Education (CLREs) housed in the IIRs on those two campuses. During 2000-2003 the ILE supported a wide range of research, teaching, and community service activities.