Oregon Labor Candidate School

Wrapped class two for our in-person cohort today. When talking about fundraising we called in the big guns and were joined by OLCS Class 1 alumni, Rep. Rob Nosse. Big shout out to for hosting and our trainers Emily and Abigail for sharing their knowledge.

Another year another amazing cohort! Kicked off our first in-person class of OLCS 2026! Thank you to the for hosting us and our board chair Catie for co-training today. Next week we kick off our virtual cohort with 13 more folks! That’s right, it’s our largest cohort to-date with 24 total participants across two classes!

Very lucky to share space with today on a panel with our amazing Alumni and Willow Ryan from . Such great energy from these leaders!

On June 14th, we graduated one of our largest classes to date, with 21 folks representing 11 cities from Klamath Falls, Oregon, up to Vancouver, Washington, and 10 different unions. Congrats to the OLCS class of 2025, we are so excited to see what is next for you all.

Feeling extremely grateful to be joined again by Bob Bussel and OLCS Board Members, Hayley with the Oregon State Building & Construction Trades Council and Marshall with IBEW Local 48 for our virtual cohort class 5 this weekend. Next up??? Graduation on June 14th for 20 new OLCS Alumni!