Labor Guild of Boston

What Does the Guild do?

     The Labor Guild is a Catholic agency with roots deeply imbedded in social and economic justice. The Guild works closely with labor unions and community organizations in the Greater Boston area and throughout New England. Our mission is to promote economic and social justice, good order in the workplace, teach workers to act in good conscience and judgment and to provide workers with the knowledge and the courage to be effective in the Labor/Management environment.  We have a special focus on labor education, running workshops, panels, and two semesters per year of “Labor School,” a nine-week labor night school program. Our students are rank-and-file union members, labor leaders, and activists. Our courses cover labor organizing, labor history, negotiation and arbitration in the workplace, and social justice.

Since 1945, the Guild has provided over 50,000 students and working practitioners with:

Practitioner-led labor education, professional training and personal development through our School of Labor-Management Relations, workshops, forums and conferences. 

Comfortable, neutral space to conduct bargaining, training and meetings between parties.

Books we’ve published: Your Rights on the Job by Robert M. Schwartz, Esq, and New Employment Laws in Massachusetts 2016, 200-page compendium of resources from a Guild Labor Forum.

Our Cushing-Gavin Awards (CGA) and Dinner honors four exceptional professionals from our regional labor relations community in four categories -- labor, management, attorneys, and auxiliary -- each year since 1967.