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SUMMARY:The American Labor Relations System: Yesterday\, Today\, and Tomorrow with Dan Fogarty
DESCRIPTION:Together\, in this 5-week class you will learn about and discuss: \n\nKey historical moments and recurring trends in American labor relations\nMajor labor legislation and the current legal framework underpinning collective bargaining\nRules and strategy for both bargaining and administering a union contract\nThe challenges and opportunities facing American labor relations today and into the future\n\nInstructed by: Daniel Fogarty\, Partner\, Sandulli Grace P.C.\nDaniel Fogarty is a partner at Sandulli Grace\, P.C.\, where he has practiced since 2015. Dan is dedicated to representing unions and their members in a wide range of labor and employment matters. Through his hard work\, Dan has obtained successful outcomes for his union clients in contract negotiations and interest arbitration\, contract administration and grievance arbitration\, and unfair labor practices before the Department of Labor Relations. He has also represented workers in matters concerning work-related injuries\, disability retirement applications and appeals\, professional licensure and certification matters\, including matters before the Massachusetts POST Commission and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education\, as well as appeals for unemployment assistance\, discrimination claims\, and wage and hour issues. \nBefore joining Sandulli Grace\, Dan worked as a Labor Relations Trial Examiner at the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining\, where he acted as a neutral decision maker in improper practice and representation cases between the City of New York and various municipal unions. While in law school\, Dan also gained valuable experience working at a union-side law firm\, Region 2 of the National Labor Relations Board\, and the NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. \nDan graduated cum laude from George Washington University with a B.A. in Philosophy and then went on to receive his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School where he was an active member of the Moot Court Honors Society. He is licensed to practice law in both Massachusetts and New York.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/the-american-labor-relations-system-with-dan-fogarty/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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SUMMARY:Drafting Contract Language to Reduce Grievances with Mike Loconto
DESCRIPTION:Purpose of the Course: \nThe purpose of this course is to prepare contract negotiators to draft  effective collective bargaining proposals. Grievances and costly arbitration’s often arise out of unclear contract language. Many locals and employers do not use attorneys to assist with drafting during the  collective bargaining process\, and sometimes disputes arise from ambiguous provisions. \nBy the end  of this course\, students will have tools to create durable outcomes at the table and reduce costs and  uncertainty over the life of the contract. \nInstructed by: Michael Loconto\, Arbitrator and Mediator \nMichael Loconto is a Boston-based arbitrator and mediator providing neutral\, independent dispute resolution services for the modern workplace. \nArbitrator Loconto has trained with the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Institute and has apprenticed under two members of the National Academy of Arbitrators in labor\, employment and pension fund matters. He has experience in the public and private sectors with education\, trades\, construction PLAs\, public safety\, dining services\, hospitals\, and transportation\, among other industries\, and has handled a spectrum of discipline and discharge\, contract interpretation\, discrimination\, substance abuse\, pay and benefits matters. Arbitrator Loconto has two decades of practical experience\, previously serving as an in-house counsel to a small college and a labor and employment relations leader for a large university and a major metropolitan city. He has worked with unions\, managers and neutrals as a Labor and Employee Relations Association industry council leader and is the current President of Boston’s LERA Chapter. He has taught legal writing and research at Northeastern University School of Law and courses on contracts and bargaining at The Labor Guild. \nArbitrator Loconto conducts in-person or remote hearings nationally and internationally via the AAA (labor\, employment and pension/ERISA matters)\, the Labor Relations Connection\, FMCS\, the National Mediation Board\, and through more than two dozen state and local agencies. He is also a member of the Roster of Arbitrators with the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (rail disputes) and hears consumer lemon law claims in Massachusetts and contract vendor disputes with the City of New York. \nPlease visit locontoadr.com or email mtl@locontoadr.com for further information.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/drafting-contract-language-to-reduce-grievances-with-mike-loconto/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T200000
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SUMMARY:Union Power Tools and Media Skills with Ashley Adams
DESCRIPTION:This course will cover the basics of increasing the power of a local union as well as the skills necessary for a positive public union campaign. \nSpecifically\, we will address the following  subjects: \n\nCreating a vibrant communications network\, and the one-on-one communications  necessary for effective outreach and recruitment.\nListening skills\nFighting like a boxer: training\, sparring\, easy fights\, tune up fights\, and championship fights.\nLeadership identification and recruitment.\nRunning effective meetings.\nStaging events for maximum media impact.\nHow to talk to the news media. Presentation and interview skills.\n\nThe text we will rely on is UNION POWER TOOLS\, by Ashley Adams. It’s available in print form from Amazon (all profits donated to Labor Guild and New England Jewish Labor Committee). \nInstructed by: Ashley Adams \nOrganizer\, Trainer\, Negotiator\, Massachusetts Teachers Association (Retired)
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/union-power-tools-and-media-skills-with-ashley-adams/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260311T200000
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SUMMARY:Building Union Strength Through Conflict Resolution with Ed Watt
DESCRIPTION:During this training\, participants will: \n\nUnderstand the root causes\, types\, and effects of workplace conflict.\nLearn how awareness and intentional responses can shift conflict outcomes toward collaboration.\nPractice communication tools—such as active listening\, open-ended questioning\, and reflection—to de-escalate tension and strengthen relationships.\nParticipate in small and large group exercises\, culminating in a role-play based on real-life workplace scenarios.\n\nWhen completing this workshop\, the attendees will view conflict as an opportunity to  grow the union and actively promote understanding in the workplace. \nInstructed by Ed Watt: \nAt age 16\, Ed Watt started his union career as a member of Local 338 RWDSU. Working for the New York City Transit Authority\, he became a proud member of Transport Workers Union Local 100. At 30\, he became the chief steward of Flatbush depot in Brooklyn\, New York\, serving over  800 bus operators. In 2001\, he was elected Financial Secretary-Treasurer of the 38\,000- member local. He would serve three terms and then move on to positions in the Transport  Workers Union International and the Amalgamated Transit Union International. He is now the  principal of WattADR\, an alternative dispute resolution practice. He holds a master’s degree in  industrial and labor relations from Baruch/Cornell MSILR and a graduate certificate in  Transportation Safety from San Jose State University. \n 
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/building-union-strength-through-conflict-resolution-with-ed-watt/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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SUMMARY:Basic Steward Training with Deb Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:This 5-week course is designed to focus on BASIC Stewards training: \n\nExpectations of a steward ~ What is a Steward anyway?\nWhat you need to have ~ Resources necessary to do the job\nOrganizing vs Servicing ~ Attitude and approach to solution solving\nYour rights and obligations as a steward ~ How to deal with management\nWeingarten Rights~ How to investigate a grievance ~ dealing with members\nGrievances ~ Writing\, Investigating\, and Presenting\nGrievance Case study ~ Role play\n\nStudents should expect to actively participate in the discussions each week\, bringing  experiences\, real time problems and ideas for solutions to the issues they face as  stewards in their workplace. Copies of the contract the students are currently working with as well as copies of local union bylaws\, constitutions\, or any other governing  documents should be available for students to check and use as a resource. \nInstructed by: Deb Sullivan\, Retired Associate Director of Labor Education~ Massachusetts Nurses Association \n 
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/basic-steward-training-with-deb-sullivan/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T200000
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SUMMARY:Sold Out-Advanced Steward Training
DESCRIPTION:This course will build on the skills students developed in the Basic Steward Training course by emphasizing Strategic Planning for local unions\, members mobilization\, and problem-solving techniques and member mobilization skills. To make the course more meaningful\, students should bring their own ideas for discussion. It is a prerequisite that students have completed the Basic Steward Training course. \nIt is a prerequisite that students will have completed the Basic Steward Training course. \nObjectives: \n\nStudents will enhance their grievance handling and grievance investigation skills.\nStudents will develop skills around Member Mobilization.\nStudents will learn skills to assist their union in Strategic Planning.\nStudents will improve their understanding of the role of the union steward in the union Organizing model.\n\nInstructed By: Tom Breslin\, Retired Associate Director of Labor Education\, Massachusetts Nurses Association
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/advanced-steward-training/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251112T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T185050Z
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SUMMARY:Union Meetings and Robert’s Rules
DESCRIPTION:Whether you want to become a more effective and respected Chair\, or a more confident and impactful participant\, we’ll put Robert’s Rules Order to work to achieve more effective and democratic union meetings.  We’ll review both the basics of Robert’s Rules of Order (making motions\, debate\, and voting). You will learn how Robert’s Rules of Order interfaces with your union’s bylaws\, special rules of order\, standing rules\, and past practice\, as well as labor law.  Other issues we will discuss will be special meetings\, executive session\, electronic meetings\, rules for committees and small boards (yes\, they are different from membership meetings!)\, members ex-officio\, and more.  You will also find the materials distributed in this course invaluable meeting tools as you attend or run your union meetings.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/union-meetings-and-roberts-rules/2025-10-15/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251105T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T144609Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding\, Reviewing\, and Amending Bylaws
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Wednesdays- 9/10/2025-10/8/2025- Your Union Bylaws – Do they really say what you think they say on important issues: who is the ultimate authority in the union; who gets to interpret the bylaws when it’s necessary; when does custom or past practice matter; what happens when your bylaws are silent on a potentially-divisive issue\, what mandates from Robert’s Rules kick in when your bylaws are silent; what belongs in policies versus bylaws? Refine your bylaws to avoid conflicts or complications because of missing or poorly-framed language. This workshop will teach you to review\, evaluate\, and amend your bylaws with confidence and ease. The materials provided will be invaluable reference tools for anyone serving in a leadership role and is responsible to membership and to any member interested in the effectiveness of their governance documents.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/understanding-reviewing-and-amending-bylaws/2025-10-08/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250808T155605Z
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SUMMARY:Basic Steward Training
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Tuesdays 9/9/25-10/7/25- Course Description: This course will cover the basic duties and responsibilities of a Shop Steward. Building your skills by emphasizing strategic planning for local unions\, member mobilization\, recording documentation\, and the grievance process. Students will participate in case studies to develop and enhance problem-solving techniques to navigate through daily issues swiftly and professionally. Students will also build more effective skills to communicate between trades as well as with their members\, foreman\, supervisors\, and/or business managers. To make the course more meaningful\, students should bring their own ideas for discussion. It is recommended but not a requirement. \nInstructor: Tom Breslin has been involved in Labor Education since the mid-1980s while a graduate student at the University of Minnesota where he was an adjunct instructor in the Labor Education Service. In addition\, he served as the Labor Studies Coordinator in the St. Paul\, MN public schools teaching Labor History and Labor topics to junior and senior high school students. He has been a Labor Educator at both the Minnesota Nurses Association as well as the Massachusetts Nurses Association. Following his retirement from the MNA\, he began teaching at the Labor Guild. \n\n\nInstructed By: Tom Breslin\, Retired Associate Director of Labor Education\, Massachusetts Nurses Association\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/basic-steward-training/2025-10-07/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T200000
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SUMMARY:Union Nominations and Elections
DESCRIPTION:Class Description: We’ll cover the basics of union nominations and elections and what your union needs to be in legal compliance. This workshop will help you assess your union’s process to assure you meet all minimum standards\, and provide you with tools like a checklist of considerations and requirements and sample bylaw language\, policies\, nomination/election notices and ballots. \nInstructor Bio: Patti Legault-Frank has been a consulting Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist and an instructor at The Labor Guild since 1981. In addition to local\, state\, and international labor unions\, she has also consulted to credit unions; school committees; professional and social organizations. Her Labor Guild courses have been on Union Meetings with Robert’s Rules of Order; Reviewing and Amending Union Bylaws; and\, on Union Elections. Her union consulting on organizational governance has included reviewing and refining governance documents (bylaws and rules\, policies\, and procedures); Officer\, Executive Board\, and member training; rendering formal parliamentary opinions when internal governance documents are silent or ambiguous; and\, serving as parliamentarian at membership meetings and annual conventions. \nAs a prelude to consulting\, Legault-Frank was with the Massachusetts Teachers Association from 1976 to 1986\, where she was both the Governance Specialist and also represented eight local affiliates in contract negotiations and enforcement. While at MTA\, Legault-Frank also served as President and Negotiations Chair of MTASO (MTA Staff Organization)\, the independent union comprised of her fellow staffers.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/union-nominations-and-elections-2/2025-06-04/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250617T200000
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SUMMARY:Critical Steps to Prepare for Arbitration
DESCRIPTION:When a grievance cannot be resolved by direct conversations or through the grievance process\, arbitration may be necessary. Before arriving at the arbitration hearing\, thorough preparation can make the hearing more efficient\, and hence less costly\, and ensure that the arbitrator has the record necessary to make a sound decision. \nIn this class we will cover: \nClarity about what remedy is being sought. \nTheory of the case. \nNecessary witnesses. \nNecessary exhibits. \nPast practices or decisions. \nClosing arguments\, oral or written. \nCourse Goal: To understand the arbitration process and the ways it is used in labor relations disputes. By the end of the course\, participants will know how to use the grievance procedure and work with other representatives and attorneys to prepare an effective presentation before an arbitrator. \nCourse Style: After laying a foundation of the basic concepts\, each week the class will work through the steps leading to the hearing. \nInstructor: Sheila Mayberry is a full-time labor-management arbitrator and Chairwoman of the Maine Labor Relations Board. She is on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) and Co-Chair of the 2024 NAA Annual Meeting in Boston. She has also been Co-Chair of NAA New England. She organized the first several years of the annual Labor Arbitration Conference in partnership with the University of Rhode Island. \nShe has also taught several courses at the Labor Guild\, the AAA\, and the Becoming and a Labor Arbitrator  (BALA) course with the FMCS. Prior to her arbitration career\, Ms. Mayberry was an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Philadelphia\, PA. She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Temple Beasley Law School in Philadelphia. \nInstructor: 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 10 years as an arbitrator for United States Steel Corporation and the United Steelworkers of America in Pittsburgh\, PA. She expanded her practice to a wide variety of the private and public sectors after returning to her native Massachusetts in 1993. \nMs. Neumeier was admitted to the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA) in 1990 and served as a member of the NAA Board of Governors and as Vice President\, and she continues to serve on numerous committees\, nationally and for the New England region. She currently chairs the Program Committee for the Labor Arbitration Conference\, sponsored by the University of Rhode Island Charles T. Schmidt\, Jr. Labor Research Center in partnership with the NAA New England Region. In 1991-1992 she served President of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR)\, now the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR). \nMs. Neumeier has a B.A. in Economics from New York University\, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and is a member of the Massachusetts bar. Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick appointed Ms. Neumeier to the Commonwealth Employment Relations Board in 2008\, where she served for eight years.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/critical-steps-to-prepare-for-arbitration-2/2025-05-20/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T212357
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SUMMARY:The Empowered Negotiator\, A Collective Bargaining Workshop
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Virtual Class: Wednesdays 2/26/25 – 4/16/25  6:00PM-8:00PM \nCourse Description: In this class\, students will learn how to create and combine all of the elements necessary to maximize your advantages at the collective bargaining table. This includes: understanding the perception of power and its importance to successful negotiations\, bargaining strategy development\, bargaining table protocols\, involving the membership\, how to go about enhancing your bargaining power\, and negotiations simulations. \nIf you want to understand the real mechanics of the Collective Bargaining process\, and develop effective leadership skills\, then this workshop is for you. \nInstructor Bio: Paul McCarthy is a Union Organizational Specialist who works closely with union leaders to help solve organizational problems and build union power and effectiveness. He is a valued and seasoned bargaining consultant\, organizer\, and strategist with over 40 years of experience. Paul’s union leadership skills training programs and his trouble-shooting expertise are provided exclusively to organized labor throughout the United States and Canada.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/the-empowered-negotiator-a-collective-bargaining-workshop/2025-04-16/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T212357
CREATED:20250131T180204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T183959Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Labor History with Dave Kowalski
DESCRIPTION:8 Week Virtual Class: Tuesdays 2/25/25 – 4/15/25  6:00PM-8:00PM \nPower and Struggle \nThis class is a staple for every union member.  It is the story of Unions and Corporations and how they were formed and grew.  A view of how labor struggled for fair wages and social justice from a variety of different lenses: economic\, political\, judicial and legislative.  This class gives a unique perspective of how unions have been molded into what we are today.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/virtual-labor-history-with-dave-kowalski/2025-04-15/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250204T200000
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SUMMARY:Advanced Steward Training
DESCRIPTION:This course will build on the skills students developed in the Basic Steward Training course by emphasizing Strategic Planning for local unions\, members mobilization\, and problem-solving techniques and member mobilization skills. To make the course more meaningful\, students should bring their own ideas for discussion. It is a prerequisite that students have completed the Basic Steward Training course. \nIt is a prerequisite that students will have completed the Basic Steward Training course. \nObjectives: \n\nStudents will enhance their grievance handling and grievance investigation skills.\nStudents will develop skills around Member Mobilization.\nStudents will learn skills to assist their union in Strategic Planning.\nStudents will improve their understanding of the role of the union steward in the union Organizing model.\n\nInstructed By: Tom Breslin\, Retired Associate Director of Labor Education\, Massachusetts Nurses Association \nFormat: Online via Zoom
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/advanced-steward-training-2/2025-02-04/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T212357
CREATED:20241127T180522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T181456Z
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SUMMARY:The Union Secretary
DESCRIPTION:This is a three-week course on how to effectively fulfill the duties of a Union Secretary\, including the nuances and expectations of the role. \nThe Union Secretary\, the recording officer whose responsibilities are defined first in the union’s bylaws and then supplemented in Robert’s Rules of Order\, is often the most underappreciated position in the union! We’ll look closely at the importance of preparing the official minutes\, meeting notices\, agenda\, and policies of the Union. There will also be templates for the documents we discuss. \nBefore the first session\, be sure to read and have available for reference the section of your bylaws that sets out the secretary’s duties. \nInstructed By: Patti Legault Frank\, Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist \nFormat: Online via Zoom
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/the-union-secretary/2025-01-22/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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