A Collective Effort: Strategic Counsel on Unions and Organizing Threats

While union membership in the private sector has gradually declined, employers have scant cause for complacency. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under President Biden made aggressive moves to alter the playing field and gave unions many increased rights. Because the NLRB has been without a quorum since January, these new rules remain in place. Changes include more easily organized workforces for new employers, as well as allowing established unions to continue and expand their influence over employers.

How CDF Can Help Protect Your Company

Against this shifting backdrop of NLRB changes, the value of experienced labor attorneys who are familiar with California’s current union landscape will prove pivotal to employers. CDF attorneys understand the power of prompt, decisive action. We have traditional labor attorneys with over thirty years of experience. Unlike many management side labor law firms, our traditional labor law practice group has attorneys who previously were union members and/or worked with law firms representing unions earlier in their career, so we can often read between the lines on union strategy and intentions.

We have helped non-union employers successfully prevail in union organizing campaigns and have represented unionized employers in all areas of union-management relations, including:

• Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) Negotiations
• Grievance and Other Labor Arbitrations
• Unfair Labor Practice Charges
• Picket Line Misconduct and Strike-Related Litigation
• Sale and Acquisition of Unionized Business Entities
• Strikes

CDF attorneys have negotiated collective bargaining agreements for employers in many industries. We guided clients during negotiations to help them achieve needed operational flexibility as well as wage and compensation provisions that have allowed our clients to prosper during difficult economic times. We regularly handle union grievances and arbitrations and are familiar with many of the experienced arbitrators in Northern and Southern California. Our attorneys have also represented employers in some of the largest and most notable strikes in California in the last several decades and stand ready to act during labor strife.

Our traditional labor attorneys are experienced in representing employers before the National Labor Relations Board, the Railway Labor Act and the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board.