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 Fall 2023 for our 142nd term! - $50/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.

  • School Session 1 begins Tuesday, September 12, and runs through Wednesday, October 11.
  • Session 2 begins the week of October 16th.
  • Sign up for as few as 1, or join us for all courses!

This term's classes include:

The American Labor Relations System: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The American Labor Relations System: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Virtual Event

Course Description: The American Labor Relations System: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow will explore how labor history has shaped today’s unions, as well as the challenges and opportunities unions may face…

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Massachusetts Public Sector Law with Howard Lenow

Massachusetts Public Sector Law

Virtual Event

Course Description: In this five-session class, we will explore the basic structure of public sector labor law in Massachusetts and how to make use of other statutory remedies to be…

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Conflict Resolution with Paul McCarthy

Conflict Resolution

Virtual Event

Course Description: An Advanced Communications Skills workshop for union leaders and members. This workshop contains all of the elements necessary to help participants identify, understand, and correct their communication shortcomings,…

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Understanding, Reviewing and Amending Bylaws

Virtual Event

Course Description: We will review the importance and function of your union bylaws; what they should and should not include; how to review, evaluate and amend them; their place in…

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Advanced Steward Training

Advanced Steward Training

Virtual Event

Course Description: This course will build on the skills students developed in the Basic Steward Training course by emphasizing Strategic Planning for local unions, member mobilization, and the grievance process.…

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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

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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

Partner, Sandulli-Grace, PC

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Patti Legault-Frank

Instructor, Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist

Parliamentarian and Governance Specialist

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Howard Lenow

Founding Partner

Lenow & McCarthy

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 Arbitrators

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Paul McCarthy

Principal

Collective Bargaining Associates-Consultants to Organized Labor

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Elizabeth Neumeier

Arbitrator

National Academy of Arbitrators

Arbitrator, National Academy of Arbitrators

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Labor School Scholarship Application

Anybody can apply for a Scholarship for the School of Labor-Management Relations. Please submit your application as soon as possible. Scholarships are awarded based on need and amount of support received for the term.