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Resource – The Covid-19 Vaccines
Presented on 2/25/2021 by Christine Pontus, MS, RN, COHN-S/CCM & Kevin Kavanagh, MD, MS Resources: Dr. Kavanagh’s Presentation Updated 2-26-21 (pdf) Christine Pontus’s Presentation (pdf) Massachusetts Education and Outreach Materials …
Resource – The Art of Organizing
Hosted 2/16/2021 Michael Raysson joined the guild to share his experience organizing the first and second union of security guards at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 2020 Michael…
School and Workshop Update Winter 2021
The past eleven months have zoomed by, literally, we have spent countless hours preparing and hosting zoom workshops and classes. Following a successful set of summer workshops focused on responding…
New Workshop Announcement – COVID-19 – Safety and Health Awareness Virtual Classroom
Partnering with Teamsters Local 25 the Labor Guild is pleased to announce another workshop this month, COVID-19 – Safety and Health Awareness Virtual Classroom. Greg Dodd will lead us in a training…
Resource – Unemployment Workshop
All information is current as of 1/21/21 The Labor Guild was pleased to host Monica Halas, Consulting Attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services, to provide a helpful workshop on unemployment benefits during…
Memorial Announcement – Marcia Greenbaum
We have been asked to share the following save the date for a memorial of Labor Guild member and CGA winner 1981, Marcia Greenbaum. Memorial for Arbitrator Marcia Greenbaum National…
Workshop: Update – Unemployment Benefits During Covid-19
The Labor Guild will host an updated workshop – Unemployment Benefits During Covid-19. Monica Halas from Greater Boston Legal Services will provide a presentation on how the latest round of Covid-19 Relief…
The Labor Guild 2021 Annual Members Meeting
The Guild’s Annual Meeting is being held on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 at 6:30 pm. At that meeting, our 2020 Officers and Board of Directors will be sworn into the…
Updated Resources
In the Spring of 2020, The Labor Guild was slated to host a workshop on the opioid epidemic, which has continued to be an issue that rages alongside the Covid-19…
Remembering Fr. John “Jack” O’Malley
The labor movement, and especially the Labor Guild, has been blessed by so many dedicated priests and religious leaders throughout the years
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
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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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,…
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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