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Congratulations To This Year’s Father Edward F. Boyle Award (Auxiliary) Recipient: Elizabeth Neumeier
Elizabeth Neumeier has been a full-time practitioner in the field of dispute resolution since 1983. Her primary area of practice is the arbitration of labor-management disputes. Ms. Neumeier served for…
Read MoreCongratulations To This Year’s Labor Award Recipient: Jim Pinkham
Jim Pinkham is Chairman of the Board of Trustees for UWUA Local 369 and a 42-year veteran of the utility industry. He began his career in 1982 as a cleaner…
Read MoreLabor History: November 2024 Blog
Disclaimer: These words are the author’s personal views and do not reflect the Labor Guild’s opinion.NOVEMBER 23 1170 B.C. – “History’s first recorded (on papyrus) strike by Egyptians working on…
Read More2024 October Blog
Disclaimer: This work is the author’s personal views and interpretations, and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Labor Guild.By 1935, workers felt like they could finally take a…
Read MoreAugust History Blog: 1921 Matewan Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain
Disclaimer: These words are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the Labor Guild’s opinion. Two bloody incidences happened in West Virginia in 1921. The first was…
Read MoreLabor History Blog July 2024: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
This month we will talk about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, which began on July 14 and ended on August 2.There were many railroad strikes during the 1800’s. For…
Read MoreLabor Life Update Highlights
Explore the latest Labor Life highlights & photo galleries Video History Project On Friday, May 17th, the Guild welcomed Carol M- Rosenbaum Productions to Braintree to produce a portion of…
Read MoreJune 2024 Labor History Blog: The Homestead Strike
by David Kowalski, Former Executive Director of The Labor Guild I cannot go into the Homestead Steel Strike without first setting the stage or the climate of the times. Andrew…
Read MoreMay 2024 Labor History Blog: May Day
by David Kowalski, Former Executive Director of The Labor Guild This month, I am going to talk about the May Day Riot in Chicago in 1896. Labor is just one…
Read MoreCatholicTV Mass For May Day 2024
The Labor Guild was honored to have our Executive Director, Fr. Marc Fallon, C.S.C., say mass live on CatholicTV for the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker/May Day, on Wednesday…
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