Bonnie Glatzer
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

Bonnie Glatzer is a partner in Nixon Peabody LLP’s Labor & Employment Practice Group.

Her practice covers a wide range of labor and employment representations, including:

Representative Matters

Litigation

• Lead counsel in jury trials involving alleged sexual harassment, sex, race and disability discrimination, wrongful termination and breach of employment contracts; bench trials involving discrimination, trade secrets and labor injunction issues; summary judgments obtained in race discrimination, age discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and breach of employment contract cases; arbitrations involving labor contract interpretation and discipline issues; and numerous mediated and negotiated settlements in lawsuits involving the full range of labor and employment issues.

Collective Bargaining

• Chief spokesperson in contract negotiations with the California Nurses Association (CNA), Caregivers & Healthcare Employees Union (CHEU), Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU), International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Local 17, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Locals 115 and 588; Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 29, Operating Engineers (OE) Local 3, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Locals 250 (now United Health Workers - West) and 1877, Teamster Locals 150, 216, 287, 431, 439 and 856, Laborers Locals 185 and 886; "back room" advice in negotiations involving numerous other unions.

National Labor Relations Board

• Advice and representation before the National Labor Relations Board in organizing campaigns involving the Teamsters, Service Employees International Union, International Association of Machinists and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; lead counsel in National Labor Relations Board unfair labor practice proceedings involving alleged unlawful bargaining, refusals to furnish information, and discrimination based on union membership and strike activity.

Agency Proceedings and Advice Work

• Representation of employers before numerous administrative agencies, including the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Worker's Compensation Appeals Board; general labor and employment counseling concerning wage and hour issues, employee handbooks, trade secret and restrictive covenant issues, severance and retirement programs; labor contract administration, affirmative action programs, drug testing and employee discipline.

Bonnie has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" by the publishers of the Northern California Super Lawyer magazine for 2009. Inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey.

Admissions

Bonnie is admitted to practice in New York and California.

Education

Boston University School of Law , J.D., cum laude
State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A.

Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association
Member, Bar Association of San Francisco