School of Labor-Management Relations
School of Labor-Management Relations
Since the Guild School’s founding in 1952, we have been committed to empowering members of the labor-management community through education and collaboration. We hope you’ll join us to Learn. Share. Grow.
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Join us in Spring 2025 for our 147th term! – $75/course
One of our greatest strengths is the tremendous range, knowledge base, and diversity of our membership network. That depth of labor-relations experience is evident in the Guild’s faculty and guest speakers who present our courses and workshops each year.
This term’s workshops include:
Educational Video Content
The Union Difference
There are many benefits to being in a union. In this video we’ll look at ways that being part of a union benefits workers – even if they don’t have a union! Want to learn more on how to start or maintain a union? Are you new to your union or bargaining and ready to learn the skills needed to succeed? To learn more, visit our website or join our School of Labor-Management relations.
Meet Our Faculty
The School’s most valued asset is our dedicated faculty, which spans the full range of labor-relations practitioners: arbitrators, attorneys, full-time union officers and educational directors, labor organizers, corporate employee relations managers, expert consultants, academics, state and federal mediators, state and federal regulatory agency staff, and more.
The generosity of our volunteer faculty allows the School to keep tuition affordable for working people.

Lisa Field
President
Labor Guild Board of Directors

Elissa C. Cadillic, M.Ed
President
AFSCME 1526, Boston Public Library Employees Union

Ashley Adams
Organizer, Trainer, Negotiator
Massachusetts Teachers Association (retired)

Tom Breslin
Retired Associate Director of Labor Education
Massachusetts Nurses Association

Daniel Fogarty
Partner
Sandulli-Grace, PC
Partner, Sandulli-Grace, PCRead More »

Paul Kelly
Partner
Segal Roitman

Dave Kowalski
Executive Director (Retired)
Labor Guild

Patti Legault-Frank
Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist
Parliamentarian and Governance SpecialistRead More »

Howard Lenow
Founding Partner
Lenow & McCarthy
Founding Partner, Lenow & McCarthyRead More »

Michael Loconto Esq.
Arbitrator
locontoadr.com

Sheila Mayberry
Arbitrator
National Academy of Arbitrators
Arbitrator, National Academy of ArbitratorsRead More »

Paul F. McCarthy
Principal
Collective Bargaining Associates-Consultants to Organized Labor

Elizabeth Neumeier
Arbitrator
National Academy of Arbitrators
Arbitrator, National Academy of ArbitratorsRead More »
