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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,…
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…
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…
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,…
This Week in Labor History, vol. 5: May Day and the Haymarket Affair
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,…
This Week in Labor History, vol. 4: The Secessions of the Plebs
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…
This Week in Labor History, vol. 3: Martin Luther King, Jr., the Mountaintop speech, and the Memphis Sanitation Strike
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…
A message from the Guild’s President and Executive Director, Dave Kowalski
“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…
This Week in Labor History, vol. 2: Susquehanna Depot
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: The Great Postal Strike
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…
Youth Caucus Wraps Up Workshops
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild Youth Caucus’s Young Worker Workshops concluded this past week. The four-week series hosted members of Teamsters 25, Carmens 589, Inspectors Union Local…
Youth Caucus Third Annual Workshop Series
The Labor Guild Youth Caucus has announced the topics and speakers for its third annual Young Worker Workshop series at the Teamsters 25 hall in Charlestown. We are extremely grateful…
Stephen Lewis’s Labor Posters
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow Stephen Lewis is used to telling the story: he started his collection “by accident,” driven not by some deep desire to hoard posters, but by…
The Guild Wraps Up 134th Term
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild’s 134th term has come to an end. On Monday, November 4, the students who earned certificates were honored in a graduation ceremony…
MBTC, Labor Guild Hold Third Building Trades Issues and Strategies Workshop of 2019
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Massachusetts Building Trades Council, in partnership with the Labor Guild, put on a two-part workshop at IBEW 223 in Taunton on Thursday, October 10…
Summer in Review: Parliamentary Procedure and Bylaws Workshops
By Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow Patti Legault-Frank, a longtime parliamentarian and governance specialist, ran a two-day workshop series at the Guild in July that provided in-depth instruction on parliamentary procedure…
Summer in Review: Building Trades Issues and Strategies Workshop Series
By Will Silverman, Father Edward F. Boyle, S.J. Summer Fellow A two-part workshop series, Building Trades Issues & Strategies, provided all Building Trades Union with the opportunity to gain more…
Summer in Review: Secrets of Arbitration Workshop
By Will Silverman, Father Edward F. Boyle, S.J. Summer Fellow As part of the Labor Guild’s Workshop Series, we were pleased to facilitate the Secrets of Arbitration, a seminar class…
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