Oregon Labor Summer School 2025
- Oregon AFL-CIO
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Join us this summer for the Oregon AFL-CIO and the Labor Education and Research Center Summer School 2025 at the University of Oregon in Eugene! This engaging annual event will be held August 1 -3. Our summer school program is an incredible opportunity to gain skills in effective grievance representation, using media to build union power, and preparing for arbitration.
We’ll have a host of workshops for attendees, including:
Bargaining for social justice
Telling our story: Using new media tools to strengthen our campaigns and build our unions
Building effective labor – community coalitions
Stopping sexual harassment in the workplace
Promoting green jobs and tackling climate change through unions
Public sector budgets and navigating the threat of layoffs
Organizing around workplace health and safety
Defending immigrant co-workers
Labor law – recent changes and union strategies for response
Amid this educationally packed weekend, we’ll also have panels on “Lessons From Oregon Strikes in 2024-2025 and “The Fight to Defend Federal Workers and Federal Services.”
Summer School begins Friday, August 1st with dinner followed by an opening welcome and social hour. Classes will begin Saturday and run from 8:30-11:30am and 2:00-5pm, and from 9:45-12:45 on Sunday.
Tuition costs:
Commuter (no room) $525
Double Dorm room $575
Single Dorm room $675
Meals included: Friday – Dinner; Saturday – Breakfast, lunch, and dinner; Sunday – Breakfast and lunch to-go.
The Alice Dale Scholarship is an annual scholarship awarded to one union member whose activism best exemplifies the spirit and commitment of Alice Dale. This scholarship covers tuition for a commuter or double dorm room (classes, meals, course materials included). Transportation is excluded. A completed form must be turned in by July 10th to be considered.
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