Our extensive experience with, and intimate knowledge of, labor unions across American industry make our lawyers invaluable in collective bargaining, strike/work-stoppage preparation and management, labor arbitrations, mediations and union organizing campaigns. Morgan Lewis attorneys operate in a wide array of forums, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Federal Labor Relations Authority. Our attorneys are leading counselors on the most critical labor issue facing employers today, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). We:
- Represent individual employers and national multiemployer bargaining associations in various industries, including aerospace, petrochemical, coal, trucking and rail.
- Represent clients in NLRB and injunction proceedings.
- Conduct labor arbitrations and mediations that help resolve disputes and facilitate positive relations between union and management.
- Advise clients on the labor relations issues arising out of mergers, spin-offs, divestitures and business relations.
- Pioneered the use of construction project labor agreements with the AFL-CIO’s Building and Construction Trades international and local unions.