LERC is hiring a Labor Education Program Coordinator in its Portland office. Help spread the word!
Newly published:
April 2024, Policy Brief by Gordon Lafer: School Board Communications With Educator Unions: What’s Legal and Illegal in Oregon?
Register now for the LRAN conference, cosponsored by the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC.) Details here The conference will run from June 20, 8am to June 21 · 5pm PDT.
SAVE THE DATE!
July 19-21, 2024
OR AFL-CIO & LERC Summer School 2024
We are excited to be back together for this year’s Summer School, cosponsored by the Oregon AFL-CIO and the Labor Education and Research Center, hosted on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.
Whether you are a new steward or a seasoned union leader, Summer School has something for you. Join us for a weekend of education, discussion and socializing with 100+ other union members from across the state. Summer School gives you the opportunity to meet and mingle with your union siblings and gain new skills to bring back to your local. For more information, contact Jennifer Smith at jjsmith@uoregon.edu.
Registration opens in early May. Share the flyer!
*Summer School is intended for union members, leaders, and staff
For more than forty years, the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon has been a critical source of applied research, hands-on training, and technical assistance for policy-makers and labor rights advocates, as well as union and community leaders in Oregon and beyond. LERC is the only program in Oregon’s higher education system that examines work and the economy with a focus on the needs, interests, and priorities of workers and working-class communities.
Learn about your rights in the workplace
Topics include grievance handling, organizing, bargaining, the law, and more.
Research Expertise
Gain new insights from our research on promoting economic equity, contracting of public services, and worker health and safety.
Helping Union Members Learn and Lead
Labor unions network with each other and develop new leadership capacity from our workshops and customized facilitation and strategic planning services.
A video history of LERC: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary
