Overview
A Tradition of Experience
Whether helping a Fortune 100 company navigate the rapids of a complex merger or acquisition, handling a union representation election, or renegotiating an expiring collective bargaining agreement, Epstein Becker Green's traditional labor law practice has the experience and resources to serve its clients wherever they are located. Our attorneys let their record speak for itself.
With offices throughout the United States, most hosting resident partners concentrating on traditional labor-management relations and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proceedings, Epstein Becker Green has extensive experience representing employers large and small in all aspects of labor-management relations.
Our attorneys have represented clients from virtually every industry in the United States, among them:
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A Tradition of Service
Epstein Becker Green's attorneys have literally done it all when it comes to labor relations, and our professional credentials rival those of any other firm in the United States. With backgrounds ranging from service with the NLRB, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the U.S. Department of Justice to state and local agencies regulating labor-management relations in the public and private sectors, our attorneys have been involved in the formulation and enforcement of national and state labor policy at the highest levels. That collective experience includes representing private sector, not-for-profit, and government employers in all aspects of labor-management relations, including union organizing campaigns; union corporate campaigns; representation and decertification cases before the NLRB and state agencies; unfair labor practice proceedings before the NLRB and state agencies; advice and counsel with respect to mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations; the prosecution and defense of damages claims by and against labor organizations; and strikes, secondary boycotts, picketing and hand-billing, mass demonstrations, and violence or vandalism. In addition, Epstein Becker Green's attorneys have successfully represented employers in literally hundreds of grievance-arbitration proceedings (including disciplinary, discharge, or contract interpretation grievances) and contract negotiations (including bargaining for multiemployer associations and single employers with multistate and national contracts).
A Tradition of Excellence
Our labor attorneys stand committed to providing our clients with the team to match their goals. Whether tackling the challenges created by a union organizing drive or corporate campaign, or providing advice and counsel with respect to labor unrest or strikes, we ably represent a client's interests by meeting its needs, on time, on budget, and with the quality all have come to expect from Epstein Becker Green.
Our Commitment
Regardless of the client's size or status as a public- or private-sector entity, our goal is always the same—to define and achieve the client's objectives in a manner that is sensitive to financial and time constraints, as well as to the client's overall business interests And because ongoing communication is essential to the process, we place a high priority on being easily accessible to our clients.
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- July 25 - 27, 2024
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- July 20 to 21, 2023
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- BlogsSupreme Court Rules NLRB 10(j) Injunctions Must Meet Higher Preliminary Injunction Standard in Blow to NLRB8 minute read
- BlogsVideo: SCOTUS Limits Availability of Injunctions in NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Cases - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- BlogsFDA Wins Mifepristone Case, NLRB Denied Lower Injunctive Relief Standards, and “Trump Too Small” Denied Trademark ...7 minute read
- Firm Announcements
Epstein Becker Green Receives National Recognition and Top Rankings in the 2024 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - BlogsOSHA’s New Walkaround Rule Potentially Grants Union Representatives Access to Safety Investigations6 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Union Reps at OSHA Inspections, New COVID-19 Guidance, and Minimum Wage Updates - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Judge’s Decision Not the End for NLRB’s Joint Employer Efforts, Attorneys Say” ...5 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Labor Board Has Many Ways to Revive Broader Joint Employer Rule”2 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “'Ping-Pong Game' Continues Over NLRB Joint Employer Rule”2 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Major US Corporations Threaten to Return Labor to ‘Law of the Jungle’”2 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Federal Agencies Pushing Boundaries Met with Backlash, Impacts of SCOTUS Chevron Deference - Employment Law This ...3 minute read
- BlogsVideo: DOL’s Final Rule on Worker Classification, NLRB Joint-Employer Rule Challenged, SpaceX Sues NLRB - Employment Law ...3 minute read
- BlogsVideo: NLRB Wants Shuttered Starbucks Stores Reopened, Big Tech Retreats from DEI Programs, and Employers Scrap College ...3 minute read
- BlogsVideo: Projections and Perspectives: Navigating Labor and Employment in 2024 - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- BlogsVideo: 2023 Labor and Employment Highlights: Key Legal Developments, Trends, and Insights - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
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Fifth Circuit Redresses NLRB’s Tesla Decision but the Board Remains Undaunted
6 minute read - BlogsVideo: Navigating the NLRB’s New Joint-Employer Rule - Employment Law This Week2 minute read
- BlogsNew York State Bans Workplace “Captive Audience” Meetings4 minute read
- BlogsFederal Government Continues Initiatives to Limit Employer Opposition to Union Organizing6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Status, Answering a Major Question No One Asked5 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Who’s Most Affected by NLRB’s Joint Employer Final Rule?”4 minute read
- Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “NLRB Adopts Expanded Joint Employer Rule”3 minute read
- Media CoverageSteven Swirsky Quoted in “From NDAs to Overtime Pay, the Federal Government Is Reshaping Employee-Employer Relations” ...2 minute read
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Twenty-One Attorneys Named to the 2023 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Lists
12 minute read - BlogsVideo: How the NLRB’s Labor-Friendly Actions Are Affecting Union and Non-Union Employers – Employment Law This ...4 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Delivers Labor Day Gifts to Unions9 minute read
- BlogsNLRB Issues Final Rule on NLRB Election Procedures; Returns to “Quickie Election” Procedures6 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “On the Move”1 minute read
- Media CoverageAndrew Lichtenstein Featured in “Epstein Becker Picks Up Ex-O'Melveny Atty in LA”2 minute read
- Publications#WorkforceWednesday: Employer Policies to Face More Scrutiny, New CO Employment Laws, NJ’s Proposed Regulations for ...3 minute read
- Firm AnnouncementsEpstein Becker Green Continues West Coast Expansion with Employment Attorney Andrew Lichtenstein in Los Angeles ...2 minute read
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Employer Handbooks and Policies Will Face More Scrutiny Under Stericycle, Inc. - NLRB Reverses a Prior Reversal ...
5 minute read - BlogsBiden NLRB Reverts to Obama Era Independent Contractor Test: Test Previously Rejected by DC Circuit7 minute read
- BlogsSupreme Court Recognizes Employer Right to Damages From Unions When Certain Types of Strike Activity Results in Economic ...5 minute read
- BlogsAn “Overbroad” Noncompete – the NLRB Has Found Its First Target10 minute read
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Epstein Becker Green Earns National Recognition and High Rankings in the 2023 Edition of Legal 500
3 minute read - BlogsNLRB General Counsel Now Targeting Noncompetes for Nonmanagerial and Nonsupervisory Employees6 minute read
- BlogsNJ Workers Involved in Labor Disputes Now Qualify for Increased Access to State Unemployment Benefits2 minute read
- BlogsRacist, Sexist, and Threatening Behavior Is Fine in the Workplace as Long as You Connect It to Union Activity: The Return of ...6 minute read
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Two by Two, Noah’s Ark Decision Expands Remedies Providing No Refuge for Employers
6 minute read - Media CoverageSteve Swirsky Quoted in “Investor Proposals Turn Up Heat in Organizing Campaigns”3 minute read
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NLRB Agenda Puts Pressure on Union and Non-Union Employers - Employment Law This Week Video
3 minute read - Media CoverageAdam Abrahms Quoted in “States with Legal Pot Consider How to Protect Cannabis Workers”2 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Further Restrict Employer Remarks on How Unionization Impacts Employer-Employee Relations ...7 minute read
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Non-Clarified - The NLRB GC’s McLaren Macomb Memo Provides Murky and Ominous Guidance on Board’s Prohibitions on ...
11 minute read - BlogsNon-Disparagement, Non-Disclosure, Non-Allowed: The NLRB Finds Unlawful Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement ...6 minute read
- BlogsD.C. Court of Appeals Scraps Substantive Changes from NLRB’s 2019 Final Rule on Election Procedures but Upholds ...6 minute read
- BlogsNLRB General Counsel Seeks to Restrict Employers’ Right to Permanently Replace Strikers6 minute read
- Media CoverageJeb Gerth Featured in “People on the Move”1 minute read
- BlogsNY Warehouse Workers Protection Act Requires Employer Disclosure on Mandated Work Speed and Quotas and Offers Protection ...5 minute read