Labor education in colleges and universities in the new era has extremely profound background and value implication. At the same time, the construction of related mechanisms is also imminent. Labor education is an important part of moral education in colleges and universities. How to integrate with ideological and political education and make labor education take root is the key point to be explored urgently at present. Integrating labor education into the process of ideological and political education can promote the all‐round development of college students' morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, which is the general trend of the current times. To carry out labor education in ideological and political education, students should actively participate in practice, form labor skills, love and work hard, establish correct labor values and enhance students' sense of social responsibility.