Strategic Legal Advice
Our firm provides strategic legal advice to unions and workers in both the private and public sector as they work to win organizing campaigns and secure strong collective bargaining agreements. We understand how to integrate our legal and practical insights into the Union’s broader strategies for organizing, bargaining, and enforcing contracts.
NLRB and BMS Proceedings
We routinely appear before the federal National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), the Minnesota Public Employment Relations Board (“PERB”), and the Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services (“BMS”) to protect our clients’ rights. We have successfully handled numerous unfair labor practice proceedings, unit clarification petitions, representation hearings, post-election proceedings, and other matters before the NLRB, PERB, and BMS.
Arbitration and Litigation
We have substantial experience enforcing workers’ rights under collective bargaining agreements in litigation before labor arbitrators. Over the years, we have successfully arbitrated complex subcontracting, layoff, and health insurance grievances on behalf of our labor clients—frequently against major corporations. We have won reinstatement and back pay for hundreds of unjustly terminated union members. And we have successfully defended numerous arbitration victories when employers have tried to challenge the results in court.
As powerful advocates for working people, labor unions are often the target of ideological lawsuits and other legal actions that seek to diminish the union’s power. Our attorneys have a long history of successfully defending our clients against these attacks by well-funded adversaries of labor.
Labor Law for Non-Union Employees
Did you know that many non-union employees have a right to engage in collective action with their coworkers to improve their working conditions, and that employers’ efforts to prevent such “concerted activity” is often unlawful? We believe that everyone should have the right to work together to better their working conditions, and we frequently help our non-union clients exert rights they didn’t know they had under federal and state labor laws. If you are a non-union employee seeking to improve your wages, benefits, or working conditions, contact us to learn more.