School Blog
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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 “Mountaintop” speech, in support of the sanitation workers’ strike that had begun two...
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 basic instincts. The entire world is experiencing a situation we hoped would never happen, especially in the era of...
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 was a part of the escalation in labor disputes along America’s...
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 strike, and over the next week postal workers in over 200 cities and towns across the country joined,...
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 600, Carpenters 339, Massachusetts Nurses Association, Pipefitters...
Our 2019 Cushing-Gavin Awardees
by Sean Lundergan, Boyle Fellow The Labor Guild honored the recipients of the Cushing-Gavin Awards at the 53rd annual CGA dinner on Friday, December 6. Below are the bios of the five recipients that appeared in the event's program book. Rich Rogers Rich Rogers is the...
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 a passion for organized labor and for the causes championed by unions around the world. That...
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 at the Archdiocese’s Pastoral Center in Braintree. The graduation featured as keynote...
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 and Thursday, October 17. The first day, MBTC President Frank Callahan led an...
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 and bylaws. The first of the three-hour sessions...