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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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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