Sep 29, 2020 | School Blog Post
In the Spring of 2020, The Labor Guild was slated to host a workshop on the opioid epidemic, which has continued to be an issue that rages alongside the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope to provide this workshop again soon, possibly in a digital format. Until then we have...
Sep 21, 2020 | School Blog Post
The labor movement, and especially the Labor Guild, has been blessed by so many dedicated priests and religious leaders throughout the years
May 1, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
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, clean frocks. To up-and-doing Socialists and Communists it means speechmaking,...
Apr 17, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
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 took place between the elites, the patricians, and the commoners, the plebeians. From the...
Apr 4, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
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 “Mountaintop” speech, in support of the sanitation workers’ strike that had begun two...
Mar 30, 2020 | Articles & Posts, School Blog Post
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 was a part of the escalation in labor disputes along America’s...
