Course Topics and Areas of Focus

Communications Skills

  • Effectiveness in oral and written communications
  • Framing and messaging
  • Using social media
  • Public speaking
  • Speaking to the media

Equity, Inclusion, and Racial Justice 

Labor and the Community

Member Engagement and Participation

  • Becoming an Effective Union Leader
  • Contract campaigns
  • Facilitation skills
  • Internal organizing and solidarity building
  • Popular education techniques
  • Recruiting and developing leaders
  • Running effective meetings
  • Strategic planning

Politics, History, the Economy

  • Labor and the global economy
  • Labor’s history and heritage
  • Labor and politics
  • Union organizing

Representational Skills

  • Advocacy Skills
  • Arbitration Preparation and Presentation
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Contract Classes
  • Grievance Handling (Beginning and Advanced)
  • Labor Law
  • Steward Training

Workplace Issues

  • Bullying
  • Safety at work
  • Stressed out workplace
  • Survive and thrive

UO Credit Classes