Karl A. Fritton

Karl A. Fritton has over 40 years of experience representing a variety of national employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitration and labor-related litigation before the National Labor Relations Board and the State and Federal Courts. His clients are in the energy, food distribution, waste management, steel, construction, manufacturing,  insurance, financial services, health care and media industries.

Karl has acted as chief negotiator in over 350 labor negotiations, including over 75 first contracts. He has extensive experience negotiating with virtually every major union and has excellent working relationships with union leaders and federal mediators throughout the United States.

Additionally, Karl has handled more than 400 labor arbitrations throughout the United States, obtaining favorable results for clients on a variety of issues.

Karl has also handled over 75 union representation petitions, including one of the largest elections held at the NLRB.

Finally, Karl advises clients on the purchase and sale of union and nonunion facilities, consolidation of union and nonunion operations, establishment of facilities in new markets by unionized employers and maintenance of constructive labor relations by national employers with both union and nonunion workforces.