Labor Law Services for Unionized Employers

• Collective Bargaining:  Advising, counseling and training managers and supervisors in all aspects of "good faith collective bargaining" obligations under the NLRA.  Assisting in the development of collective bargaining strategies for the present and future negotiations, including the direct participation in collective bargaining negotiations.

• Analyzing Current Labor Agreements:  Reviewing contracts, memoranda of understanding, past practices and arbitration awards to thoroughly understand the respective parties' contractual obligations and to identify management strengths and weaknesses.  Counseling and training managers and supervisors in the proper interpretation, application and enforcement of such labor agreements and grievance resolution.

• Grievance Resolution and Arbitration:  Advising the Employer during preliminary grievance resolution procedures.  Preparing for and representing the Employer's legal interests at arbitration hearings. 

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

• Strikes, Work Stoppages, Slowdowns, Pickets, Handbilling:  Assisting in the development and formulation of lawful plans and strategies to withstand interruptions to or interference with the Employer's business operations caused by union strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns, picketing or hand billing, including the lawful use of temporary and permanent replacements, lockouts, subcontracting and security personnel.

• Response to Employee Initiatives to Obtain Union-Free Status:  Advising, counseling and representing unionized clients in the process of responding to employee initiatives to obtain union free status, including: Decertification petitions and election procedures; Withdrawal of Recognition based on objective evidence of union's loss of majority status; and, Deauthorization petitions and election procedures.