Closing out 2024 with labor education

Here are a few more opportunities to grow knowledge and skills before year’s end

SEATTLE, WA (December 5, 2024) — As a year of powerful worker organizing comes to a close, the Washington Labor and Education Research Center at South Seattle College and the UWT Labor Solidarity Project have a few more opportunities to grow knowledge and skills as the labor movement looks ahead to building on our gains in 2025.

Tonight, December 5, join Seizing Our Moment: Today’s Labor Movement and the Task at Hand, the final UWT Labor Solidarity Project Organizing for Change seminar with Labor Center educator James Oliveros, sharing their perspective on the role of labor education and organizing. Online, free and open to the public; register here.

Thursday December 12, join the Labor Center for their final public training of 2024, Using Popular Education in Member Trainings. The workshop will cover popular education teaching methods, meant to make workers’ education as accessible, engaging, and useful as possible. The training is based on the idea that everyone can teach and learn. Learn more about popular education as a powerful framework that can empower worker to train one another and hone organizing skills collectively. Cost is $10, with no one turned away for lack of funds. Advanced registration is required; register here. 

Learn more about the work of the Washington Labor and Education Research Center on their website. 

More programming from the UWT Labor Solidarity Project is available on YouTube.