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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/2025-03-04/
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/2025-03-05/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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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/2025-03-11/
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/2025-03-12/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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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/2025-03-18/
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/2025-03-19/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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SUMMARY:Mock Arbitration with Mike Loconto Esq. and Rebekah J. Smith Esq.
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a live\, in-person workshop where you will have an opportunity to participate in a mock labor arbitration hearing. Led by two Boston-area labor arbitrators\, attendees will have a chance to role-play and observe the typical stages of a hearing.  These include: the arbitrator’s introduction; the opening statements from union and management representatives; witness testimony; objections; admitting evidence; presenting facts; and making closing arguments.  Attendees will gain practical techniques\, advocacy skills\, insights\, tips\, and strategies to prepare for your next labor arbitration hearing. The arbitrators will explain the various stages of the hearing and will offer practical advice for attendees. \nMichael Loconto Bio: \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. \nRebekah Smith Bio: \nSince 2005\, Rebekah Smith has provided arbitration and impartial neutral services in labor and employment matters.  She is on the labor arbitration panels of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service\, the American Arbitration Association\, and the Labor Relations Connection; the fact-finding panel of the Maine Labor Relations Board; and multiple permanent panels including those serving the states of Maine and Massachusetts.  Ms. Smith was recently reappointed as a neutral Alternate Chair on the Maine Labor Relations Board.  She is Past Board President of LERA-Maine and of the Maine Association of Mediators and remains a member of the boards of both organizations. \nMs. Smith’s arbitration practice\, which is centered in New England and Washington\, D.C.\, encompasses a wide variety of issues and workplaces.  She has received training through AAA\, FMCS\, and the National Academy of Arbitrators New Arbitrators Salon and DEIB Initiative. \nHer neutral practice has also included service as an administrative hearing officer for a variety of administrative agencies involved in the trades and mediation in employment matters.  Ms. Smith received her bachelor’s degree\, cum laude\, from Bowdoin College\, and her law degree\, magna cum laude\, from the University of Maine School of Law.  She served as a judicial clerk for the Chief Justice Daniel Wathen of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and subsequently for Judge Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit before conducting a two-year Skadden Fellowship representing clients in the Maine legislature and through impact litigation prior to her neutral career\, the only recipient of the Skadden Fellowship from UMaine Law to date.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/mock-arbitration-with-mike-loconto-esq-and-rebekah-j-smith-esq/
LOCATION:The Labor Guild\, 66 Brooks Drive\, Braintree\, MA\, 02184\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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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/2025-03-25/
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/2025-03-26/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:School of Labor-Management Relations
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