You Have a Contract, Now What? (Part 2 of 2)
3:30 - 5:00 pm
2026-Ed Seminar-Tuesday, April 21
Location: Orchard South
Speakers: Jennifer Robbins, Alex Skalbania, Michael J. Tedesco
Negotiations are over. You have a ratified contract and a bargaining team ready for a vacation. How do you hold the employer to all of your hard-fought gains? How do you leverage the work you accomplished at the bargaining table and protect against the erosion of contract rights over the life of the CBA? This two-part attorney panel will cover a wide range of practical issues unions face when bargaining is done:
- Leadership development for the next bargaining team
- CBA enforcement in the short and long term
- Organizing and marshaling bargaining history
- Union record-keeping best practices
- Mid-term modification of working conditions through employer policy changes
- MOUs and LOAs after the contract has been ratified – the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Not losing sight of issues you fought for but didn’t get
- Building upon the gains you got in one contract to expand them in the next
About the Speakers
Jennifer Robbins
Jennifer L. Robbins is a partner with Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP. She achieves social and economic justice through strategic, effective, and zealous representation of her union clients. Jennifer has extensive experience in arbitration and in court fighting employer attempts to deny workers the wages, benefits, and working conditions to which they are entitled...
Alex Skalbania
Alex has been practicing law for over 35 years, since graduating from the University of Washington School of Law and becoming a member of the Washington State Bar Association in 1985. Alex also did his undergraduate work at the University of Washington, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the UW in 1982. From the...
Michael J. Tedesco
Mike has been practicing law since 1978 and is the founding partner of Tedesco Law Group. He started his legal career working as a civil rights enforcement attorney with the Oregon Department of Justice. He began practicing labor law exclusively in 1980 and has represented labor unions for more than 35 years. Mike has...