Harrison C.Kuntz
Associate
Labor & Employment
hkuntz@seyfarth.com
Harrison leverages his extensive NLRB experience—both inside and outside the agency—to help employers with their labor law challenges.
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Employers must protect their business interests while also focusing on labor relations matters, including positive employee relations needs, organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, work stoppages, NLRB charges, and labor arbitrations. Harrison assists clients on all aspects of labor law, including those affecting unionized and nonunion employers alike. He helps employers develop and implement evidence-focused approaches to labor law issues.
As a former NLRB agent, Harrison possesses unique insight into the agency’s processes for investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practice charges and union representation elections. Harrison has counseled clients of all sizes, in many industries, throughout NLRB and other labor proceedings. His experience with the NLRB includes work on the second- and third-largest elections in NLRB history, investigating allegations that different companies constituted single or joint employers, cases involving employee use of employers’ email systems, class action waivers in arbitration agreements, independent contractor status matters, and NLRB jurisdictional scope issues. He has advised clients on developing NLRB issues in private practice, as well as effectively confronting complex matters in the collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and federal court contexts.
As a former NLRB agent, Harrison possesses unique insight into the agency’s processes for investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practice charges and union representation elections. Harrison has counseled clients of all sizes, in many industries, throughout NLRB and other labor proceedings. His experience with the NLRB includes work on the second- and third-largest elections in NLRB history, investigating allegations that different companies constituted single or joint employers, cases involving employee use of employers’ email systems, class action waivers in arbitration agreements, independent contractor status matters, and NLRB jurisdictional scope issues. He has advised clients on developing NLRB issues in private practice, as well as effectively confronting complex matters in the collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and federal court contexts.
- JD, Washington University in St. Louis
Labor and Employment LawDean’s Fellow (Full Tuition Fellowship); Articles Editor, Washington University Law Review; Staff Member, Washington University Appellate Clinic; Excellence in Oral Advocacy Award; Negotiation Competition Finalist
- MPP, University of California, Los Angeles
Labor Policy - BS, Cornell University
Industrial and Labor Relations
- Illinois
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Related Services
- Charging unions with NLRA violations for the scope unlawful secondary activities
- Cases involving the scope of protected concerted activities under the NLRA, including issues of political speech and “inherently concerted” activities
- Independent contractor standards
- Joint employer standards
- Employee use of employer email systems
- Mail ballot election deficiencies
- Bargaining unit scope standards
- NLRB jurisdictional issues
- NLRB injunction proceedings in federal court
- Good faith bargaining standards
- Employee discharges in NLRB and labor arbitration contexts
- Union contract interpretation issues in in NLRB and labor arbitration contexts
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Labor and Employment Law - Management (2021-2024); Litigation - Labor and Employment (2021-2024)
- Management-Side Regional Co-Chair, ABA Committee on Practice and Procedure before the National Labor Relations Board, Region 14 (St. Louis)
Harrison leverages his extensive NLRB experience—both inside and outside the agency—to help employers with their labor law challenges.
More About Harrison
Employers must protect their business interests while also focusing on labor relations matters, including positive employee relations needs, organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, work stoppages, NLRB charges, and labor arbitrations. Harrison assists clients on all aspects of labor law, including those affecting unionized and nonunion employers alike. He helps employers develop and implement evidence-focused approaches to labor law issues.
As a former NLRB agent, Harrison possesses unique insight into the agency’s processes for investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practice charges and union representation elections. Harrison has counseled clients of all sizes, in many industries, throughout NLRB and other labor proceedings. His experience with the NLRB includes work on the second- and third-largest elections in NLRB history, investigating allegations that different companies constituted single or joint employers, cases involving employee use of employers’ email systems, class action waivers in arbitration agreements, independent contractor status matters, and NLRB jurisdictional scope issues. He has advised clients on developing NLRB issues in private practice, as well as effectively confronting complex matters in the collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and federal court contexts.
As a former NLRB agent, Harrison possesses unique insight into the agency’s processes for investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practice charges and union representation elections. Harrison has counseled clients of all sizes, in many industries, throughout NLRB and other labor proceedings. His experience with the NLRB includes work on the second- and third-largest elections in NLRB history, investigating allegations that different companies constituted single or joint employers, cases involving employee use of employers’ email systems, class action waivers in arbitration agreements, independent contractor status matters, and NLRB jurisdictional scope issues. He has advised clients on developing NLRB issues in private practice, as well as effectively confronting complex matters in the collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and federal court contexts.
- JD, Washington University in St. Louis
Labor and Employment LawDean’s Fellow (Full Tuition Fellowship); Articles Editor, Washington University Law Review; Staff Member, Washington University Appellate Clinic; Excellence in Oral Advocacy Award; Negotiation Competition Finalist
- MPP, University of California, Los Angeles
Labor Policy - BS, Cornell University
Industrial and Labor Relations
- Illinois
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Related Services
- Charging unions with NLRA violations for the scope unlawful secondary activities
- Cases involving the scope of protected concerted activities under the NLRA, including issues of political speech and “inherently concerted” activities
- Independent contractor standards
- Joint employer standards
- Employee use of employer email systems
- Mail ballot election deficiencies
- Bargaining unit scope standards
- NLRB jurisdictional issues
- NLRB injunction proceedings in federal court
- Good faith bargaining standards
- Employee discharges in NLRB and labor arbitration contexts
- Union contract interpretation issues in in NLRB and labor arbitration contexts
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Labor and Employment Law - Management (2021-2024); Litigation - Labor and Employment (2021-2024)
- Management-Side Regional Co-Chair, ABA Committee on Practice and Procedure before the National Labor Relations Board, Region 14 (St. Louis)