Antitrust Law
Our firm is a national leader in recognizing and preventing labor monopsonies – the consolidation of employers’ power to weaken collective bargaining, eliminate competition for workers’ services, and suppress wages. Our antitrust practice is focused on representing and advising labor unions opposing mergers and corporate acquisitions that threaten consumers’ pocketbooks and workers’ wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Antitrust Enforcement & Regulatory Advocacy
We advise and represent labor unions before federal and state regulators, supporting their efforts to block anticompetitive mergers or, where appropriate, to condition the transactions on terms that protect consumer and workers’ rights.
Supporting Labor Unions Through Mergers & Acquisitions
When a proposed merger or acquisition looms, we advise labor unions in their negotiations with their employers to ensure that workers’ wages, benefits, and working conditions remain protected through the transition. In the case of a $60 billion acquisition by a Fortune 500 company’s acquisition, we advised a labor union through their negotiations with the acquiring company, which led to a labor neutrality agreement, under which workers were allowed to exercise their rights to organize and collectively bargain.
Legislative Reform
We advise and represent labor unions in connection with legislative reforms affecting workers’ interests. Representative work includes retention by a coalition of labor unions to ensure that the interests of workers, labor unions, and consumers are before the California Law Review Commission during its overhaul of California’s antitrust law.
