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Key Additional Legal Services for Vantage Data Centers Project Labor Agreements
Our experience in labor law runs the full spectrum of services related to handling union issues. This includes preventative and proactive policies and procedures to limit union organizing and labor relations issues. We assist clients with the day-to-day decisions that affect the stability and atmosphere of a workplace, and our attorneys have been extremely successful in helping clients achieve their objectives with collective bargaining and labor negotiations.
Our traditional labor team represents clients before the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), defending and prosecuting unfair labor practice charges. We counsel clients through labor disputes such as strikes and picketing, obtaining temporary restraining orders and injunctions and basic strike preparations. We have represented clients in lawsuits against labor unions, taking a number of significant cases through trial. In addition, our attorneys advise, counsel and negotiate collective bargaining agreements, and advocate for our clients in grievance arbitrations and related cases. We have substantial experience representing employers with large and unionized workforces. Based on this experience, we have developed a unique understanding of the business and operational concerns facing companies and have assisted them in developing comprehensive preventative activities, personnel policies and legal strategies for application organization-wide.
Where necessary for regulatory approvals or other political reasons, we also have significant experience in advising on and negotiating favorable project labor agreements and neutrality agreements on behalf of developers and contractors. We have negotiated and advised on such agreements for projects in the energy, utility, hospitality, healthcare, and commercial and residential real estate industries.
David Chidlaw
Partner / Labor & Employment
San Diego dchidlaw@sheppardmullin.com 619.338.6614
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• Administrative litigation and counseling expert before State and Federal Agencies, including the NLRB, Cal/OSHA, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (the Labor Commissioner), the California Apprenticeship Council and Division of Apprenticeship Standards, the U.S. Department of Labor, BCIS, the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing, the OFCCP, and the EEOC.
• Advised both organized and merit shop employers for the length of his career.
• Advised and represented employers in collective bargaining negotiations, organizing drives, decertification efforts and grievance arbitration matters.
• Regularly defends employers before the NLRB and provides guidance and training on union avoidance.