National Labor Relations Board

The Firm’s expertise in National Labor Relations Board proceedings derives in part from the invaluable experience that Ernest Collazo gained by serving as a staff attorney at the NLRB’s Regional Office (Region 2) in New York. We enjoy an active practice in rendering labor relations advice and in Representation Case and Unfair Labor Practice proceedings before the NLRB.

We have appeared before the NLRB in proceedings and elections arising out of certification petitions, decertification petitions, employer petitions, unit clarification petitions, deauthorization petitions, and amendment of certification petitions.

We have also appeared before the NLRB in unfair labor practice cases involving contract bar issues, jurisdictional disputes, accretion, alter ego status, successorship issues, recognitional and organizational picketing, expanding and contracting units, plant relocations, subcontracting, information requests, impasse, bad faith bargaining, picket line misconduct, secondary boycotts, “Hot Cargo” agreements, solicitation and distribution of literature, work stoppages, discrimination on account of concerted or union activity, and more.

Labor Arbitrations

We have represented clients extensively in arbitration proceedings brought under collective bargaining agreements and in “ad hoc” circumstances, including disciplinary arbitrations under “just cause” provisions, as well as contract interpretation disputes involving seniority, bumping rights, management rights, work assignments, job classifications, working supervisors, overtime, rates of pay, break periods, and various benefits provisions such as vacations, holidays, and tuition reimbursement. This substantial arbitration experience has acquainted us well with the experience of arbitrators who commonly serve on the panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the New York State Mediation Board.

Our significant experience with the full range of arbitration issues, combined with the excellent rapport that we are privileged to have with the arbitrators who generally preside over these proceedings, has resulted in an overwhelming success rate at arbitration for our clients.