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Union Avoidance

Our traditional labor lawyers have a focused practice in union avoidance. For example, we have defeated union organizing drives at manufacturing facilities, each with more than 1,000 hourly employees in Arkansas; at an agricultural production facility in Hawaii with 500 workers; at a silicone wafer manufacturing plant in Missouri with 700 employees; and at a chemical plant with more than 800 employees in Florida. We have also handled a number of decertification and deauthorization elections for clients throughout the United States and most recently in Chicago, Illinois; Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; and Dallas, Texas.

With the current administration’s pursuit of the Employee Free Choice Act, it is critical that employers wishing to remain union-free adopt policies and conduct training sessions designed to avoid a union campaign before one begins. In recent years, we have developed and presented such programs in Washington, D.C.; Greenville, South Carolina; Fort Smith, Arkansas; Houston, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois.
Partners
Anderson, Anthony A.
Godiner, Clifford A.
Needham, Amie E.
Poplstein, Charles M.
Sarsfield, Timothy J.
Starke, Jane Sutter
Woodman, G. Kent
Associates
Bruning, Lauren M.
  • American Water Company
  • Baldor Electric Company
  • Bunge North America
  • Bunzl USA
  • City of St. Charles, Missouri
  • Monsanto
  • Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • Sigma Aldrich Corporation
  • The Kansas City Southern Railway
  • Trans States Holdings, Inc.
  • Union Pacific Railroad
Union Avoidance

Defeated Teamsters Local 570 election petition at a warehouse-distribution facility in Baltimore. 
Defeated an IBEW attempt to organize an 800-employee unit at a chemical plant in Pensacola, Fla. 
Defeated Machinists’ election petition to organize a 700-person unit at a manufacturer of computer wafers in St. Peters, Mo. 
Obtained decertification of the Teamsters at a warehouse-distribution facility in Seattle. 
Decertified the Teamsters at a national water company facility in East Chicago, Ind. 
Defeated Longshore and Warehouse Union’s election petition regarding 500 farm workers at a seed company’s genetic farms in Hawaii. 
Defeated Steelworkers Union’s election petitions to represent hourly workers at oil refining facilities in Hartford and Granite City, Ill. 
Decertified United Food and Commercial Workers from an international agricultural company’s oil packaging facility in Fort Worth, Tex. 
Defeated three Teamsters Union organizing petitions in Arkansas, each involving voting units greater than 1,000 employees. 
Defeated the Teamsters Union’s petition to organize warehouse employees and drivers at a facility in central California. 
Obtained decertification against the Teamsters Union at a San Diego transportation company.