Union organizing campaigns are gathering momentum across the country. Union organizers are leveraging effective tools such as social media, websites, and other digital communications to advance organizing efforts. At the same time, the federal government has taken a decidedly union-friendly approach.
Union-free employers that are confronted with a union organizing campaign require experienced counsel like members of our Traditional Labor Law Team. We have first-hand experience representing and advising clients through active union organizing campaigns that lead to card checks and the voluntary recognition process, and the federal election process conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. Similarly, we counsel unionized employers through the decertification election process where appropriate. We leverage our knowledge of union strategies and tactics to help clients navigate this increasingly challenging environment. In addition, we regularly advise union free employers that are not the target of union organizing on drafting and enforcing handbook policies and issuing disciplinary actions that will not violate the law.
Companies with unionized workforces also benefit from our team's significant experience representing private and public sector employers nationwide in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, higher education, hospitality, cannabis, and real estate. Our Traditional Labor Law Team has collective bargaining experience with almost every United States union, having negotiated literally several hundred collective bargaining agreements. We often succeed at limiting client disputes with the union and maintaining harmonious employer-labor relations by providing effective advice and counsel on contract administration, contract interpretation, and employee discipline issues, proactive supervisory training, and conducting internal investigations as needed. When disputes arise, we have a proven track record in defending clients in litigation before the NLRB and at arbitration hearings. We are also regularly involved with due diligence matters and corporate transactions which raise union issues or involve unionized workforces.
