Nov 18, 2019 | Articles & Posts, Community Spotlights
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow Stephen Lewis is used to telling the story: he started his collection “by accident,” driven not by some deep desire to hoard posters, but by a passion for organized labor and for the causes championed by unions around the world. That...
Nov 13, 2019 | Articles & Posts
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild’s 134th term has come to an end. On Monday, November 4, the students who earned certificates were honored in a graduation ceremony at the Archdiocese’s Pastoral Center in Braintree. The graduation featured as keynote...
Nov 4, 2019 | Articles & Posts, Workshops & Classes
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Massachusetts Building Trades Council, in partnership with the Labor Guild, put on a two-part workshop at IBEW 223 in Taunton on Thursday, October 10 and Thursday, October 17. The first day, MBTC President Frank Callahan led an...
Aug 27, 2019 | Articles & Posts
By Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow Patti Legault-Frank, a longtime parliamentarian and governance specialist, ran a two-day workshop series at the Guild in July that provided in-depth instruction on parliamentary procedure and bylaws. The first of the three-hour sessions...
Aug 26, 2019 | Articles & Posts
By Will Silverman, Father Edward F. Boyle, S.J. Summer Fellow A two-part workshop series, Building Trades Issues & Strategies, provided all Building Trades Union with the opportunity to gain more skills and the knowledge necessary to advocate in various public...
