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| Labor and Employment Law |
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In handling labor/management relations issues, our attorneys work to provide our employer clients with the maximum flexibility to accomplish their business goals. Whenever possible, we facilitate the creation of a labor/management environment that minimizes the potential for time-consuming and costly labor disputes, grievances, and unfair labor practice charges.
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Services:
- Collective bargaining negotiations and administration
- Decertification elections
- Labor arbitration proceedings
- Proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, including filing and defending against unfair labor practice charges
- Resolution of labor disputes, including strikes, secondary activity, and other disruptive tactics
- “Union-free” representation campaigns
Industries Represented:
- Communications Services
- Construction
- Gaming & Entertainment
- Manufacturing
- Municipalities
- Retail - Miscellaneous
- Transportation Services
- Wholesale - Miscellaneous
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Cases and Transactions:
- Greg Naylor directed the efforts of a large client interested in turning away a union organizing effort by IBEW Local #347. Following an intense campaign to educate the company's employees on the potential impact of a union relationship on their employment and the client's business, the employees in the unit voted 77-16 to reject union affiliation. The win was accomplished without the filing of any unfair labor practice charges, not were there any contested ballots in the election.
- Whitfield & Eddy attorneys have successfully directed many union-free election campaigns, including bringing home three successive employer election wins at a large Iowa entertainment complex which had been targeted for union organization by five separate labor unions since its opening in 2000.
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