Labor Law Services for Non-Union Employers

• Preventive Labor Relations:  Assisting in the development of Company policies and procedures predicated on well-established principles of enlightened management --designed to develop an effective human resources program, to equip a well-trained and informed managerial/supervisory team, to encourage open, upward/downward communications and provide fair problem solving procedures.  Training managers and supervisors in the fundamental skills required to maintain stable employee relations. 

• Union Avoidance:  Formulating and executing lawful strategies to respond to Union organizing efforts consistent with the goals of the Union-Free employer.  Through the years, we have helped prepare thousands of front-line supervisors to lawfully and effectively respond to union organizing threats.

• Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges:  Assisting the Employer in the investigation, trial and/or resolution of charges filed at the National Labor Relations Board.

• Representation Elections and Related Communications:  Resolution of issues raised by NLRB petitions filed on behalf of Unions attempting to organize the Employer’s workforce.  Advising on communications with employees in the weeks leading up to an NLRB election, and assisting in election-related formal procedures.  Throughout the past 25 years, we have helped our clients withstand hundreds of attempts by unions to organize their workforces.

• Picketing/Boycotts:  Helping Employers protect their interests, responding to recognitional, area standards, informational and/or economic picketing.

• Recognition Agreements; Neutrality:  Assisting the Employer in assessing and responding to Union entreaties to forgo the traditional Board-run representation election process. Drafting and monitoring card-check, neutrality, and other similar voluntary recognition agreements. Training management and supervisory personnel to ensure compliance with such agreements, while protecting the rights of all parties involved.