2025 Prairie School for Union Women

The Prairie School for Union Women offers trade union women an intensive four days of learning and sharing in a supportive environment. The goals of the school are to develop women’s personal and leadership skills and to build solidarity among women workers.

Enrollment for the school is limited and courses are filled on a first registered, first preference basis. Your registration fee must accompany your registration form in order to qualify. Register early as seats are limited in each course! We will do our best to register you in your preferred course.

Courses are scheduled over four days, and if spots are not available in your first course preference, you will be registered in your second or third course preference as selected on your registration form. Brochure (below) has full course descriptions for the 2025 course offerings:

Sharing the Women's Advocate Program: A Model for Gender Justice in Trade Unions

Resisting the Right

Women's Activist

Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging: Anti-oppression in the Union

Occupational Health & Safety for Women

Building Solidarity with Indigenous Communities

Empower Your Voice, Strengthen the Movement!

Women in Leadership

START: Sunday, June 8 with registration opening at 3 pm SK time
END: Thursday, June 12 at 12 pm SK time

Meals, Accommodation & Transportation

Registration fees include supper on Sunday, breakfast, lunch and supper on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and breakfast on Thursday. Any other meals are the participant’s responsibility.

Fees also include accommodation at the University of Regina and you will be situated in a two bedroom or four bedroom suite on campus. Registrants do have the option to request suite mates. However, suite assignments are based on receipt of paid registrations. The SFL reserves the right to assign accommodation.

The cost of parking on campus is included in the registration fee and transportation costs are the responsibility of the participant. Do not book flights out of Regina earlier than 2:00 pm if possible.

Register your vehicle for parking (before May 30!) here.

Childcare

Childcare may be provided onsite to children 12 years of age and under by qualified childcare workers. This is for parents/guardians who have no alternate care available. Space is limited and only pre-registered children will be accepted. The deadline to request childcare is May 3, 2025, no exceptions. All parents/guardians requesting childcare will be contacted after May 3.

The cost for participants with children in childcare is $500 for the first child and $200 for each additional child. Fees include meals, snacks and activities where costs are incurred.

Scholarship

The Prairie School for Union Women has established a Scholarship Fund for the purpose of encouraging women from equity-seeking groups and from non-unionized work settings to attend the school as participants.

Women from the following equity-seeking groups are eligible to apply: Indigenous women, women with disabilities, visible minority women, lesbian/bisexual/transgender women and youth (29 and under). In addition, unemployed women and women working in non-unionized settings are eligible to apply.

The scholarship application form is found below.