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Thank you to a Sustaining Member
Long time Guilder, CGA recipient, and Faculty member, Alan McDonald and his firm are pledging a certain dollar figure each and every month
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2020 In Memoriam
We remember and celebrate the lives and accomplishments of these members and friends of the Guild: Kenneth A. Paradis, Ken served as the Vice President of the National Constructors Association…
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Introducing Fr. Ed Boyle, S.J. Fellows
Joe Twiner Joe Twiner is the Guild’s new Father Ed Boyle Fellow, the sixth since the program started. He just graduated from Boston College with a Master’s degree in theology…
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2020 Letter from the Executive Director
Adapting and moving forward is what we have always done at the Labor Guild. Over the years we have offered the courses we felt students needed to protect the rank and file workers. However, we have never been presented with a situation where our ability to teach would itself be taken away from us.
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Guild Concludes Virtual Parliamentary Procedures and Bylaws Workshops
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow The Guild’s first ever virtual workshop series concluded on Tuesday. Once a week four weeks Patti Legault-Frank, our longtime parliamentary procedure and bylaws instructor,…
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This Week in Labor History, vol. 8: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow 143 years ago, on July 16, 1877, workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia went on strike in response to wage cuts imposed by the Baltimore…
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Guild Welcomes New Executive Board Member
The Guild is proud to announce our newest Executive Board member, Rob Manchester of Teamsters Local 25. Rob, who’s 27, has been a member of Local 25 for three years,…
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This Week in Labor History, vol. 7: Founding of the IWW
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow The Industrial Workers of the World was founded 115 years ago today. The IWW, whose members are known as Wobblies, has played an essential…
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Equality among Us All: A Statement from Executive Director Dave Kowalski
Over the door at the old Guild facility in Weymouth was a sign with the words of Fr. Mortimer Gavin that read, “YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO THIS HOUSE.” The…
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This Week in Labor History, vol. 6: James Connolly
by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow James Connolly, the Irish socialist, nationalist and labor leader, was executed 104 years ago, on May 12, 1916. His death helped transform a failed,…
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