Labor Guild Information

The Labor Guild is an ecumenical membership organization of over 1800 men, women and organizations engaged in all aspects of labor-management relations and the workplace.The Guild provides targeted education, programs and services, in a trusted and welcoming environment. The Guild promotes healthy labor-management relations, and believes effective principled collective bargaining is a primary driver of real world economic equity and social justice in our democracy. The Guild operates the only Catholic Labor School in the nation (in continuous operation since 1953) and is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Boston. The Guild's School is open to all and provides engaging, high-quality, affordably-priced labor education, professional training and leadership development, offering classes in labor law, collective bargaining, steward training, union governance,, public speaking, organizing, labor history, and the philosophy of unionism. The school has provided labor education for more than 45,000 workers thus far, including more than 60 international union presidents and all the presidents of Massachusetts’ state labor councils since WWII. The Guild also represents a moral voice for constructive labor management relations, creating opportunities for the area’s leading union and management leaders to meet, build close personal relationships, and explore ways to work on shared problems. We are open to anyone interested in promoting just, decent and productive workplaces. Join us.