Registration Open: 2025 Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference

April 25-26, Portland
Registration Open Now at pnlha.org

“Labor in a Hostile Political Environment: What Can Labor History Teach Us?”

Friday night, April 25 Oregon AFL-CIO, 3645 SE 32nd 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 & Washington 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
•Building Labor and Environmental Coalitions: Then and Now
•Julia Rutilla: Women Fighters in the ILWU
•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]