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Collective Bargaining
Another portion of our practice is representing management in
collective bargaining negotiations. We have a national practice
representing individual employers and multi-employer groups in bargaining.
We represent hotels, casinos, and office building owners; wine and spirits
distributors; records distributors; airlines; food service companies; and
sports and entertainment companies.
Our approach is to deal professionally and respectfully with unions
whenever possible to achieve management’s goals. We believe that
confrontations and litigation with unions are often counterproductive to
management's objectives and that building a long-term, professional,
trust-based relationship with a union is quite often more effective in
accomplishing management's goals. Therefore, in cities and industries
where unions are strong, we believe that management generally obtains more
cost-effective and flexible labor contracts, as well as higher morale and
productivity, by working constructively with unions rather than by
confrontational tactics. We believe engaging unions to reason with
management to solve mutual problems facing the business is usually more
productive than brinkmanship. In some cities and industries, of course,
this approach is not viable and we advise clients to follow more
traditional, confrontational approaches. Stuart Korshak, Rick Kracoff and
Bill Glynn are in charge of our collective bargaining practice (see
Biographies).
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