Labor and Employee Relations

We have particular expertise in helping organizations develop their work cultures in both union and union-free environments. All services are designed to help employers minimize legal adversity while optimizing employee morale and productivity.

Being experienced with 30+ rounds of contract negotiations and over 15 union organizing campaigns, we have dealt with the following unions: Steelworkers, Machinists, Teamsters, Boilermakers, Electrical Workers, GCIU (Printing), and Office Workers, to name a few. As a matter of ideology, we are not anti-union - rather, we are pro-employee, and seek to help organizations improve their work cultures systemically, operate within the letter and spirit of the law, and to unleash the full potential of the workplace. Services include:

For Unionized Employers

• Chief spokesman role in labor contract negotiations
  
• Grievance handling and analysis
  
• Arbitration preparation and presentation
  
• Decision and effects bargaining in plant closures
  
• Dispute settlement
  
• Discipline consultation
  
• Contract interpretation
  
• Strike contingency plans and management
  
• Employee attitude surveys

For Union-Free Employers

• Union avoidance strategies
  
• Union avoidance training for supervisors
  
• Employee attitude surveys
  
• Focus group climate sensing
  
• Risk assessment in absence of active campaigns
  
• Dispute resolution
  
• Investigatory reviews
  
• Development of HR policies, handbooks