Our Team
Littler's Labor Management Relations Practice Group tracks and reports on developments in private and public sector labor relations, providing insight into issues that may have a significant effect on how employers do business. Coupled with the firm's more detailed publications, the Labor Relations Counsel blog targets for employers meaningful legal developments, including appellate court decisions, NLRB and NMB decisions, and administrative rules and regulations. During this time of enormous governmental change and shifts in strategy and style of powerful labor unions, Littler's history and depth of experience in labor relations gives its attorneys a distinctly broad perspective with which to provide insight and useful analysis of the latest developments.
Editorial Board
Bill Emanuel
Mr. Emanuel has extensive experience representing management in traditional labor matters including collective bargaining negotiations; labor arbitration and the administration of union contracts; union election campaigns; strikes, boycotts, picket lines and corporate campaigns; and NLRB and Section 301 litigation. He also advises employers with regard to business restructuring decisions including mergers and acquisitions, workforce reductions, plant closings, and the sale of facilities. In his counseling practice, he also emphasizes wage-hour and California Labor Code issues; executive terminations and severance agreements; employment agreements; and trade secret and unfair competition matters.
Todd Nierman
Mr. Nierman has a diversified practice representing and counseling employers in labor and employment matters. He has defended employment lawsuits, including collective actions under the FLSA, in courts in Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Tennessee. His counsel has been sought concerning over 100 union organizing efforts in units as large as 2,000 employees, in twenty states. He has negotiated dozens of collective bargaining agreements in units as large as 1,500 employees. Before joining Littler, Mr. Nierman practiced at the Indianapolis firm Baker & Daniels for 20 years.
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