2025 Summer School Brings 150 Members Together Across Region 9A

Region 9A’s 2025 Summer School is in the books! Thanks to the historic (and newly unionized!) LGBT Center in New York City for hosting our two-day event.

The first day included workshops on Building Political Power, Effective Union Meetings, Mobilizing in Manufacturing & Design, Fighting for Immigrant Justice, Communications for a Powerful Contract Campaign, The Fight Against Free Trade, and Striking to Win.

Day two featured sessions on Social Movement Unionism, New Organizing, the Working Class Agenda in DC, One-on-One Organizing, Fighting Trump in Higher Education, The Filipino Workers’ Movement, Building a Powerful Contract Campaign, Contract Enforcement for Grievance Handlers, and more.

UAW President Shawn Fain attended both days of Summer School and addressed our members on Friday, saying, “Members are leading the way here in Region 9A.” Thank you to the 150 UAW members in attendance from nearly every local across our region for spending your Friday and Saturday teaching and learning from each other to build solidarity and power in our union!

Region 9A gives special thanks to our amazing Summer Brigade participants—Afi, Brenden, Najifa, Naomi, and Skyler—who spent the past five weeks training full-time to be Local Union Discussion Leaders to share the types of trainings provided at Summer School at the local level across our region. As always, learn more about Region 9A’s educational programs at region9a.uaw.org/education.