2026 Labor Research & Action Network (LRAN) Conference

The 2026 LRAN conference, co-hosted by by the W.E.B. Du Bois Southern Center for Studies in Public Policy at Clark Atlanta University, will hold a standalone meeting on May 14th at the Teamsters Local 728 hall in Atlanta. This registration is for those only attending LRAN on the 14th. LRAN workshops will also be integrated into the Jobs With Justice National Conference on May 15th - 16th at the Westin Hotel in Atlanta. If you wish to attend both LRAN and the JWJ National Conference, you need to register at this page and select the LRAN add on ticket: https://whova.com/portal/registration/z4bpzcBDpuQMYQhKtss4/

REGISTER HERE FOR JWJ AND LRAN COMBINED CONFERENCE

Hotel blocks are being held by those attending the JWJ National Conference and information is available on the registration page. The rate for attendees is $169/night plus tax.

The 2026 LRAN conference will gather to hold space for a broad range of labor activists, practitioners, scholars, and others to connect, learn, and strategize together. Over the past year, we have come face to face with remarkable vulnerabilitie​s in the protective institutions of our society. The already fragile safeguards won to protect workers in the U.S. have been further eroded, manipulated, or erased, leaving an unrecognizable landscape for the labor. Workers are on the front lines in the battle against unrestricted capitalism and authoritarianism, from the shop floor to Capitol Hill. Bolstering collective community and worker power is critical if we are to revive our democracy.