Segal Roitman LLP | What We Do

UNIONS
Segal Roitman is New England’s oldest and largest union side labor law firm. Founded in 1972, Segal Roitman represents scores of private and public sector labor unions throughout New England. Segal Roitman represents statewide labor organizations, such as the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, International Unions, and local unions. We represent unions in the building trades, industrial unions, service employee unions, university and teacher associations, and public employee unions.

Today, Segal Roitman’s practice ranges from the newest issues in organizing, to rights of immigrant workers, to contract negotiations and litigation with multinational corporations. We can do this because our firm is built on a solid foundation Our founding partner, Bob Segal, brought the first case in federal court under the National Labor Relations Act (then known as the Taft Hartley Act) and participated in drafting many of our state labor laws. More recently, Segal Roitman represented the Boston Building Trades Council in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the validity of project labor agreements by a 9-0 unanimous vote, a rarity in current Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Our services include:

Advising labor organizations of their rights and obligations
under federal labor, discrimination, and employee benefits laws;
Arbitration;
Negotiations;
Advising unions concerning organizing drives;
Advising labor organizations concerning DOL audits
and regulatory initiatives;
Advising labor organizations concerning internal union elections and
other governance issues including the obligations of the
Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959;
Cases before the National Labor Relations Board and
the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission;
State and federal court litigation;
Assisting unions in investigating discrimination claims and
representing their members in the grievance process concerning
discrimination claims;
Drafting employment manuals for union offices; and,
Drafting policies and conducting training to combat discrimination
in the workplace.

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