Dec 9, 2019 | Articles & Posts, CGA Awardees, Profiles
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild honored the recipients of the Cushing-Gavin Awards at the 53rd annual CGA dinner on Friday, December 6. Below are the bios of the five recipients that appeared in the event’s program book. Rich Rogers Rich Rogers...
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...
