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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Free Virtual Unemployment Insurance Benefits Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Unemployment Insurance (UI) \nUnemployment insurance (UI) is a critical safety net during periods of joblessness. This vital program allows workers and their families to meet their basic living expenses when they’re out of work\, while stabilizing the economy during recessions. \nThis workshop provides you with the expertise you need to understand the UI system and secure the UI benefits to which you and members of your union are legally entitled. It will guide you through the UI system from eligibility criteria to the appeals process. It will also discuss challenges with DUA’s new online system\, how union members should address new questions in the online benefit portal to remain exempt from the work search requirement\, and how part-time work during a benefit claim may affect eligibility. \nJASON SALGADO is a Staff Attorney in the Workers’ Rights Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services\, where he represents workers and advocates for legislative change in unemployment insurance\, paid family medical leave\, wage and hour\, and misclassification matters. Jason previously worked in the Workers’ Rights Unit as an AmeriCorps paralegal\, law student intern\, and volunteer. Jason graduated from Harvard Law School in 2021 and received his bachelor’s degree from Boston College.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/free-virtual-unemployment-insurance-benefits-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:Workshops
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SUMMARY:Free Virtual Paid Family and Medical Leave Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) \nAs of 2021\, Massachusetts has fully implemented its Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program\, providing workers wage replacement benefits when they have to remain out of work because of their own serious health condition\, to care for a family member\, or to bond with a newborn or newly-adopted child. By enabling workers to afford to take time away from work under these circumstances\, these critical benefits improve health outcomes for workers and the public as a whole\, while also improving early childhood development outcomes for children. \nThis workshop will provide an overview of the benefits and protections available to workers under the PFML law\, tips regarding the application and appeals process\, and a discussion of unresolved barriers to accessing these benefits to look out for as you seek to access these benefits for yourself\, your family\, or other members of your union. \nSTEPHANIE HERRON RICE is an attorney and Racial Justice Fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS) in the Workers’ Rights Unit. Her practice focuses on Paid Family Medical Leave (PFML) and unemployment insurance (UI) individual representation and systemic advocacy. Stephanie serves on the UI Bond Bill Advisory Council\, providing input to the Employment Modernization and Transformation Project overhauling the UI online system. Prior to joining GBLS\, Stephanie worked in the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and South Coastal Counties’ Justice Center in Brockton as a housing and benefits attorney. She received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
URL:https://laborguild.com/event/free-virtual-paid-family-and-medical-leave-workshop/
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