Anastasopoulos, Nicholas

Nick practices exclusively in the area of labor and employment law. His practice includes traditional private- and public-sector labor law, litigation of employment disputes, and counseling on labor, employment and human resource matters. While maintaining a diverse practice, he has developed a significant emphasis on labor relations. Nick regularly counsels clients on traditional labor issues, including union avoidance, election campaigns, collective bargaining and complex contract formation disputes, grievance adjustment and arbitration, unfair labor charges, strikes, picketing, and other work stoppage issues and reduction-in-force planning. He has appeared before numerous state and federal agencies including the National Labor Relations Board, the Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Nick has been named a Massachusetts "Rising Star" by Boston magazine and Law & Politics every year since 2006. He was also selected by the Worcester Business Journal as one of “40 Under Forty” young professionals honored for their professional achievements and community service. In September 2010, Nick was appointed by Governor Patrick to the Division of Labor Relations Advisory Council.

Representative Matters

• Successfully represented City in obtaining permanent stay of arbitration based upon unenforceable "Evergreen" clause
• Successfully negotiated sweeping municipality-wide (including School Unions) plan design changes through informal coalition bargaining
• Advised and represented client through NLRB decertification proceeding, which resulted in employee votes to remove incumbent Union as exclusive bargaining representative
• Developed strategies for a health care provider during picketing and work stoppage
• Successfully guided a service-industry client during union organizing, including defending related unfair labor charges, and card-check election
• Represented an employer in union duty of fair representation litigation in federal court
• Represented a municipality in a $4 million arbitration related to health insurance premium contribution for unionized employees
• Represented a higher education institution in a complex union recognition dispute
• Defended an unfair labor charge related to a municipality's decision to lay off police officers and allegations of direct dealing with employees