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Update: Summer School 2025

Oregon Afl-Cio and the UO Labor Center presents Summer School.

A quick update as some courses and workshops are filling up fast. The core course, Effective grievance representation, is almost full with only 10 seats left in the class. The workshops high-lighted below are filling up quickly. Secure your spot soon before your preferred topic is full!

Core courses:

  • Effective grievance representation
  • Using the media to build union power  Course removed due to low interest.  Please consider taking the Workshop, Telling our story: Using new media tools to strengthen our campaigns and build our unions.
  • 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
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Registration is open for Summer School 2025

Oregon Afl-Cio and the UO Labor Center presents Summer School.

We’re excited to reunite for this year’s Summer School, proudly 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, panel, and social hour. Classes will begin Saturday and run from 8:30-11:30am and 2:00-5:00pm, and from 9:45am-12:45pm on Sunday. You may choose to enroll in a Core Course, which spans all three class sessions, or you may choose three Workshops.

For more information and to register, click here.

Don’t forget to share the flyer as well!

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Save the Date: Summer School August 1st – 3rd

 

Oregon AFL-CIO and the UO Labor Center: Summer School, August first through third 2025

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

Whether you’re a first-time steward or a veteran union organizer, Summer School has something to offer everyone. Spend a weekend immersed in education, thought-provoking discussions, and lively socializing with over 100 union members from across the state.

With a mix of fun and learning, this event is a chance to connect with different unions and acquire valuable skills to strengthen your union. Don’t miss out!

Workshop details and registration information coming soon.

In the mean time, visit the Summer School 2024 page to get a feel for what the weekend may look like.

Download flyer here.