Labor Management Relations

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.

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, the U.S. Department of Justice, the White House, Congress, and state and local agencies regulating labor-management relations in the public and private sector, 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 its 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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