School Blog
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CGA 2020 Winner: Amy Laura Davidson, Esq.
Amy Laura Davidson has been a partner in the law firm of Sandulli Grace, P.C., for twenty-eight years. The firm specializes in the representation of unions in collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, and litigation in court and at the Department of Labor...
CGA 2020 Winner: Arthur Osborn Jr.
> Click here to buy tickets to this year's CGA awards celebration < Arthur was born in Waltham, his parents Carolyn and Arthur Sr. then moved to Lexington, where he attended school grades 1 – 12. Arthur is the oldest of his siblings, Danny, Natalie, and...
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 pandemic. We hope to provide this workshop again soon, possibly in a digital format. Until then we have...
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
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, ran her usual workshop over Zoom for an average of 25...
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 and Ohio Railroad. They blockaded the railway, disabled the cars and announced that no train...
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, and he credits both the Teamsters and the Guild with a vast improvement in his quality of life...
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 role in American labor history, including in the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence,...
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 Labor Guild’s mission is to promote good order in the workplace, to teach workers to act in good conscience and to...
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, week-long rebellion into a rallying cry for Irish independence from the...