2025 Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference: “Labor in a Hostile Political Environment: What Can Labor History Teach Us?”

April 25-26, Portland, Oregon

Registration Open Now at pnlha.org

Friday night, April 25 Oregon AFL-CIO, 3645 SE 32 nd Ave., Portland

6:00-8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion: “How Labor History Helps Us Understand and Face the Current Attacks on the Labor Movement”

Graham Trainor, President, Oregon AFL-CIO

April Sims, President, Washington State Labor Council

Sussanne Skidmore, President, British Columbia Federation of Labour

Tour, Reception and Social Hour

Saturday, April 26, NECA/IBEW Electrical Training Center, 16021 NE Airport Way, Portland

8:00-5:00 pm Plenary Sessions:

“The Other Operation Dixie: Public Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement”

Will Jones, Professor of History, University of Minnesota

“Malevolent Bargains: The Politics of Immigration Restriction (1920s/2020s)”

Dan Tichenor, Professor of Political Science, Director, Wayne Morse Center on Public Governance, University of Oregon

Bob Bussel, Professor Emeritus, Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon

Responses from Oregon Trade Unionists

Workshops/Panels:

•Pages from British Columbia Labor History

•Black Oregonians and the Civilian Conservation Corps

•Teacher Strikes in the PNW in Historical Perspective

•Young Workers On the Move

•Class and Racial Violence in the PNW

•Labor and the Environment

•Julia Rutilla, PNW Radical

•New Research in Labor History and Labor Strategy

•How to Do Local Union History

[Agenda subject to change. See PNLHA website for Updates]

Register now at pnlha.org

Early Bird (by April 1): $45

Students: Free [with student ID]