School Blog
Looking for the inside scoop on Guild School Courses? Take a look through our School Blog to meet students, hear about what they’re learning, and get a glimpse of school nights at the Guild! Want to add your own thoughts or be featured? Let us know by emailing sean@laborguild.com.
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...
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 skills and the knowledge necessary to advocate in various public...
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 that took place at the New England Joint Board UNITE HERE in Boston, MA. Thanks to...
Public Sector Unions Back Legislation to Address Janus vs. AFSCME Ruling
Union members packed the hearing room on Beacon Hill on Tuesday, as the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development took public comment on pending legislation. Steve Tolman, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, took to the stand, flanked by dozens of labor...
Workers Memorial Day: Pray for the Dead; Fight like Hell for the Living
On Friday, April 26th members of the Massachusetts labor movement gathered in front of the State House to commemorate Workers Memorial Day. The event, hosted by the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health(MassCosh), echoed the words of labor leader...
Labor Guild Youth Caucus backs Fair Share Amendment
By Henry De Groot Hearing on the Fair Share legislation On Thursday, Labor Guild Youth Caucus members were at the State House for the Fair Share Bill Hearing. The Raise Up MA coalition successfully organized to back the public hearing as the Joint Committee on Revenue...
Labor Guild Welcomes David Kowalski as New Executive Director
By Henry DeGroot The Labor Guild is pleased to introduce David Kowalski as our new executive director. With years of service to the labor movement in Massachusetts, and over three decades of involvement with the Labor Guild of Boston, Dave brings valuable leadership...