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

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Elissa C. Cadillic, M.Ed

President

AFSCME 1526, Boston Public Library Employees Union

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Ashley Adams

Organizer, Trainer, Negotiator

Massachusetts Teachers Association (retired)

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Tom Breslin

Retired Associate Director of Labor Education

Massachusetts Nurses Association

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Daniel Fogarty

Partner

Sandulli-Grace, PC

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Paul Kelly

Partner

Segal Roitman

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Dave Kowalski

Executive Director (Retired)

Labor Guild

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Patti Legault-Frank

Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist

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Howard Lenow

Founding Partner

Lenow & McCarthy

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Michael Loconto Esq.

Arbitrator

locontoadr.com

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Sheila Mayberry

Arbitrator

National Academy of Arbitrators

Arbitrator, National Academy of ArbitratorsRead More »

Paul F. McCarthy

Principal

Collective Bargaining Associates-Consultants to Organized Labor

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Elizabeth Neumeier

Arbitrator

National Academy of Arbitrators

Arbitrator, National Academy of ArbitratorsRead More »

Deb Sullivan

Parliamentarian and Mediator

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