Areas of Practice
Labor Law & Relations
Our attorneys have extensive experience in a wide range of activities dealing with matters of labor law and relations, including:
- Acquisitions and mergers
- Collective bargaining negotiation
- Employee handbooks, policies and procedures
- Fringe benefit fund collection proceedings
- Grievance handling and arbitration
- Litigation
- Management Training
- Mediation
- National Labor Relations Board representation, decertification and unfair labor practice proceedings
- Plant closings and Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act issues
- Representation and decertification elections
- Strike planning and management
- Union avoidance through positive employee relations programs
- Union contract drafting, interpretation and administration
- Union organizing campaigns
The unions with whom our lawyers have dealt with include:
Union Relationships, past and present
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers
- International Association of Boilermakers; Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Ironworkers
- International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
- International Union of Operating Engineers
- Laborers' International Union of North America
- Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association
- Service Employees International Union
- UNITE HERE
- United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
- United Food & Commercial Workers
- United Steelworkers of America