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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,…

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…

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…

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,…

By Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow In a 1929 issue, Time magazine felt the need to clarify to its readers: “To old-fashioned people, May Day means flowers, grass, picnics, children,…

by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow Working class agitation has a long history. Over two centuries in Ancient Rome, a series of struggles known as the Conflict of the Orders…

by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow This week in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before he was killed, King delivered his famous…

“Those who do not heed the lessons of history are destined to repeat it.” In this case, it is the history of our fellow man and the recycling of our…

by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow This week in 1874, workers at the Susquehanna Depot in Pennsylvania seized their employer’s equipment and facilities when their wages weren’t paid. The incident…

This Week in Labor History, vol. 1 by Sean Lundergan, Fr. Boyle Fellow The Great Postal Strike, 1970 On March 18, 1970, New York City postal workers began a wildcat…