SEIU Local 888 Education Scholarships!

SEIU Local 888 offers post-secondary educational scholarships for members and their immediate families.

Local 888 will award one Greg King Memorial Scholarship of $1,000 (by lottery) and two $500 scholarships (by lottery) to enable members (or family) to attend any post-secondary school of their choosing.

Local 888 will also award scholarships of up to $500 for approved labor study programs or courses (information on a few Labor Studies programs is below).

Completed applications are due by Sept. 13, 2014 for Fall scholarship awards.  Applications will be screened by the Scholarship Committee and the lottery will be held at the Sept. 17 Executive Board meeting.  Scholarship winners are expected to attend the Oct. 4 membership convention to receive their award.

Scholarships applications are available at the Local 888 union hall or by clicking here:

**Labor study programs**Labor Guild Classes

The course listing for the Fall 2014 Guild School //laborguild.com/product/fall-2014-school-labor-management-relations

Fall Location: SEIU-1199, 150 Mt. Vernon St. Dorchester, MA 02125 Classes start Monday, September 15 through graduation November 10, 2014

Local 888 Communications and Policy Director, Rand Wilson will be teaching a Labor Guild class: "Crisis in the Labor Movement: Which Way Forward for Workers and Their Unions?"

Learn more and register online at www.laborguild.com, or call 781-340-7887.

UMass Labor Studies Programs:

Amherst www.umass.edu/lrrc Boston              www.umb.edu/lrc/labor_studies Dartmouth       www.umassd.edu/labored Lowell www.uml.edu/FAHSS/WLS/default.aspx