Amy J. Zdravecky

Her significant representations include:

• Represented several large health care organizations in collective bargaining, unfair labor practice charges, and union elections involving the SEIU, NNU and Michigan Nurses Association
• Represented numerous hospitality organizations in negotiations, union organizing campaigns and arbitrations involving the UNITE HERE and IUOE
• Represented a nationwide meat packing company, airline catering company, distributor of sundry products and Midwestern grain company in numerous union organizing drives, NLRB-proceedings, and/or union certification and decertification elections, involving Unite Here, the UFCW, the RWDSU, Steelworkers and Teamsters Unions
• Served as chief labor negotiator during several initial and successive contracts involving the SEIU, the Teamsters, UNITE HERE, RWDSU, UFCW, the Utility Workers and the Steelworkers Unions
• Retained by several national employers with more than 50 U.S. locations to conduct positive employer relations training and union vulnerability audits and assessments at numerous locations
• Represented numerous clients in various industries in WARN Act litigation, including class action litigation
• Represented a client in a jury trial in a case involving alleged claims of age and disability discrimination

*These representations occurred prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg.

• Speaker, NLRB General Counsel Update, ABA 13th Annual CLE, New Orleans, LA, November 2019
• Speaker NLRB General Counsel Update, ABA 12th Annual CLE, San Francisco, CA, November 2018
• Speaker, “Mock R-Case”, ABA 11th Annual CLE, Washington DC, November 10, 2017.
• Speaker, “The Law of Successorship,” ABA 10th Annual CLE, Chicago, Illinois, November 12, 2016
• Speaker, “On the Border: The Intersection of the NLRA and Immigration Law,” ABA 7th Annual CLE, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2013. Speaker, “NLRB and Social Media,” ABA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, August 2012.
• Speaker, “NLRB and Social Media,” ABA Committee for Development of the Law Under the NLRA, Midwinter Meeting, Key West, Florida, March 2012.
• Speaker, “Who Will Guard the Guards?”, ABA Committee for Development of the Law Under the NLRA, Midwinter Meeting, Fajardo, Puerto Rico, March 2, 2010.
• Speaker, “If I Only Had a Brain . . . I Could Figure Out the Contours of Concerted Activity Versus Other Competing Rights.” Quietflex Mfg., Co. L.P., 344 NLRB No. 30 (June 30, 2005), ABA Committee for the Development of the Law under the NLRA, Midwinter Meeting, Palm Springs, California, February 28, 2006
• Speaker, “Employment Law Update,” 28th Annual Conference on Not-for-Profit Organizations, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, June 6, 2009.
• Speaker, “The Employee Free Choice Act,” Chicago Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section Lunch Series, April 9, 2008.
• Speaker, Institute for Applied Management & Law, “Certificate in Employee Relations Law” (various dates and nationwide locations).

*These occurred prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg.

• Co-author, “On the Border: The NLRB’s Entry into Immigration Issues: The Employer’s Perspective,” ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, Volume 29, Issue 3 (August 2014)
• Author, “Best Practices in Negotiating Union Contracts After 14 Penn Plaza,” Corp! Magazine, June 4, 2009.
• Co-author, “Getting Ready for the Obama Board, The Illinois Manufacturer, Summer 2009 Edition.
• Author, “Quietflex Manufacturing and Its Ten-Factor Balancing Act for Determining How Long a Protected Concerted Work Stoppage Can Continue on the Employer’s Premises,” The Labor Lawyer, Summer 2006 edition.
• Recent Past Editor to Developing Labor Law Supplement, 2019-2020.

*These occurred prior to joining Barnes & Thornburg.