Summer School 2025

We’re thrilled to reunite for this year’s Summer School, sponsored by Oregon AFL-CIO and the Labor Education and Research Center, and hosted on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.

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. You may choose to enroll in a Core Course which spans all three class sessions, or you may choose three different Workshops.

Core courses:

  • Effective grievance representation
  • Using the media to build union power
  • Preparing for arbitration

Workshops:

  • 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

 Course and workshop descriptions.

Panels:

  • Friday – Lessons from Oregon Strikes in 2024-2025
  • Saturday – The Fight to Defend Federal Workers and Federal Services

Tuition:

  • 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.

 Alice Dale Scholarship

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.

Registered attendees may cancel and receive a full refund until July 18, 2025. After this date, cancellations will result in a full forfeiture of tuition. If a union registers multiple people and one cannot attend, the deadline still applies. The union must either provide a replacement and notify organizers via email or confirm that no substitute will attend.