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This Week in Labor History, vol. 5: May Day and the Haymarket Affair
By Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow In a 1929 issue, Time magazine felt the need to clarify to its readers: “To old-fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children,…
Read MoreThis Week in Labor History, vol. 4: The Secessions of the Plebs
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow Working class agitation has a long history. Over two centuries in Ancient Rome, a series of struggles known as the Conflict of the Orders…
Read MoreThis Week in Labor History, vol. 3: Martin Luther King, Jr., the Mountaintop speech, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow This week in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before he was killed, King delivered his famous…
Read MoreA message from the Guild’s President and Executive Director, Dave Kowalski
“Those who do not heed the lessons of history are destined to repeat it.” In this case, it is the history of our fellow man and the recycling of our…
Read MoreThis Week in Labor History, vol. 2: Susquehanna Depot
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow This week in 1874, workers at the Susquehanna Depot in Pennsylvania seized their employer’s equipment and facilities when their wages weren’t paid. The incident…
Read MoreThis Week in Labor History, vol. 1: The Great Postal Strike
This Week in Labor History, vol. 1 by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow The Great Postal Strike, 1970 On March 18, 1970, New York City postal workers began a wildcat…
Read MoreYouth Caucus Wraps Up Workshops
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild Youth Caucus’s Young Worker Workshops concluded this past week. The four-week series hosted members of Teamsters 25, Carmens 589, Inspectors Union Local…
Read MoreYouth Caucus Third Annual Workshop Series
The Labor Guild Youth Caucus has announced the topics and speakers for its third annual Young Worker Workshop series at the Teamsters 25 hall in Charlestown. We are extremely grateful…
Read MoreStephen Lewis’s Labor Posters
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…
Read MoreThe Guild Wraps Up 134th Term
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…
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