The NLRA: Labor Law for Advocates
EL520 $1095
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9:00 am-4:30 pm
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Whether you represent labor or management clients, it is necessary to understand the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and its practical impact on organizing, collective bargaining, and changes in the organized workplace. Using "real case" fact patterns, you will argue the law in this highly interactive workshop. Topics covered include:
Labor Law Fundamentals
- The basic concepts of the NLRA
- Negotiation obligations and parameters
- An overview of the representation election process and campaigns
Investigation and Litigation
- A view from the inside: What the NLRB expects from lawyers appearing before the Board
- Legal rights and limitations for companies and unions
— Identifying and avoiding "unfair labor practices"
— The legality of employee participation and self-directed work teams - The "duty to bargain"
— An employer's bargaining obligations
— Parameters for communicating with employees
— The obligation to provide information - Representation cases
— The election process and how it works
— Establishing the appropriate bargaining unit
— The employer's/union's rights and obligations during a union organizing campaign
— The legal and practical issues during the conduct of the election
Latest Case Developments
- Selling a unionized business: the labor law issues
- Card check neutrality agreements
- E-mail organizing
- Who is a supervisor?
Ethical Challenges in Labor Law
Instructors
Hon. Celeste J. Mattina
Regional Director of the NLRB, Region 2
Ms. Mattina was appointed Director of Region 2 of the NLRB in July 2000 after serving as the Assistant General Counsel for District I in the Division of Operations-Management for four years. In that position, she was responsible for oversight of the administration of NLRB Regional Offices in Boston, New York, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Newark, Puerto Rico, Brooklyn and Hartford. She presently supervises the handling of Board cases arising primarily in Manhattan. The region includes these New York counties: Bronx, New York, Orange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester.
Ms. Mattina joined the NLRB in 1975 as a Field Attorney in the Newark, New Jersey (Region 22) office. She was promoted to Supervisory Attorney in Newark in 1983 and served in that capacity until her promotion to Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management in 1989.
Andrew E. Zelman, Esq.
Senior Partner, Klein, Zelman, Rothermel & Dichter LLP
Mr. Zelman is a Senior Partner at Klein, Zelman, Rothermel & Dichter, LLP, a labor and employment law firm representing management in a broad range of industries. He practices labor and employment law, including employment and fair employment practices litigation. A former Legal Assistant to the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Mr. Zelman represents companies in many industries and has been particularly active for over twenty years in the maritime and paper industries.
He has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious College of Labor Employment Lawyers. He also is the author of numerous articles and papers on labor and employment law and has lectured both to management groups and bar association committees.
