Faegre & Benson counsels and represents management in its dealings with unions. Our labor management relations team includes lawyers with decades of experience at the bargaining table, practicing before the National Labor Relations Board, arbitrating and litigating labor disputes, and opposing union organizing campaigns.

Our labor practice extends throughout the United States. We have extensive experience before more than a dozen NLRB Regional Offices, as well as the Office of the General Counsel and the Board itself in Washington, D.C.

Our lawyers have successfully represented management in opposing labor organizing campaigns in industries such as manufacturing, steel fabrication and foundries, trucking, electrical and gas utilities, banking, construction, electrical assembly, printing, food service and distribution, health care, hotel, gaming casinos, and hospitality. Our lawyers have bargained for employers in those and a variety of other industries.

Our services include:

• Collective bargaining and contract administration
• Labor arbitrations
• Negotiating withdrawal from underfunded multi-employer pension plans
• Defense of unfair labor practice charges
• Responding to secondary picketing and corporate campaigns
• Representation of management in other NLRB proceedings and litigation
• Litigation under sections 301 and 303 of the LMRA
• Strike planning, operations and related litigation
• Labor issues in mergers and acquisitions
• Union avoidance campaigns
• Union decertification campaigns
• Union deauthorization campaigns