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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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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:Free Workshop: Runaway Inequality and the Crisis of U.S. Health Care
DESCRIPTION:Description: \nOur healthcare system isn’t working. It costs too much and covers too few people. And at the bargaining table\, year after year\, unions and employers face off over who will pay for the ever-escalating costs.  This course offers and in-depth examination of the U.S. healthcare system\, how we compare to other countries\, and who really benefits from it. We’ll consider how healthcare impacts collective bargaining\, how insurance companies behave\, and how the Canadian healthcare system works. And we’ll look at the possibility of a solution that can deliver high-quality\, affordable healthcare for everyone. \nComponents: \n\nIntroduction\nHealthcare Benefits and Collective Bargaining\nCan We Afford Better Healthcare?\nHow Do Insurance Companies Make Money?\nWhat’s the Alternative to Employer-Based\, For-Profit Health Insurance?\nHow Would Medicare for All Affect Workers?\nObjections and Responses to Medicare for All\n\nInstructors: \nKatherine Isaac\, Executive Director\, Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute \nRose Roach\, National Coordinator\, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/free-workshop-runaway-inequality-and-the-crisis-of-u-s-health-care/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T180000
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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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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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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:Union Meetings and Robert's Rules with Patti Legault-Frank
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-with-patti-legault-frank/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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