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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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