Services
Labor-relations support for a single negotiation, a bargaining season, or an ongoing relationship. Every engagement is scoped in writing before work begins.
Collective bargaining and chief negotiator services
Meridian can lead negotiations as chief spokesperson or support your team from the second chair, from preparation through a signed agreement.
- Initial and successor agreements
- First-chair representation as chief spokesperson
- Second-chair support
- Bargaining strategy and preparation
- Proposal and counterproposal development
- Economic and language proposals
- Tentative agreements and package settlements
- Side letters and midterm bargaining
- Impasse and factfinding preparation
Interim and fractional labor relations
When a labor-relations position is vacant, a key person is on leave, or bargaining season outgrows your team, Meridian provides experienced coverage without a permanent hire.
- Interim labor-relations coverage
- Vacancy and leave coverage
- Fractional advisory services
- Bargaining-season augmentation
- Temporary chief negotiator support
- Ongoing contract administration
- Labor-management meeting support
Subcontract and overflow support
For law firms, HR consultancies, labor-relations practices, unions, and associations that need experienced capacity for a defined project.
How firm engagements work- Overflow bargaining capacity
- Second-chair support
- Bargaining preparation
- Contract review
- Proposal drafting
- Research and comparability support
- Temporary negotiator coverage
- Grievance and arbitration preparation
Contract administration and labor strategy
Most labor-relations work happens between negotiations. Meridian helps clients read the agreement accurately, respond to disputes with a clear plan, and prepare cases that hold up.
- Contract interpretation
- Grievance strategy
- Past-practice analysis
- Meet-and-confer support
- Labor-management disputes
- Discipline under a collective bargaining agreement
- Information-request strategy
- Arbitration preparation
- Contract cleanup and redrafting
- Investigatory-interview representation for unions and employee associations
What Meridian doesn’t do
Meridian is a labor-relations consultancy, not a law firm. It does not give legal advice, conduct workplace investigations, or provide union-avoidance, persuader, or anti-organizing services. When a matter needs an attorney or a licensed investigator, Meridian will say so.
Schedule a consultation.
Whether you need a chief negotiator, temporary labor-relations coverage, or help with a specific dispute, the first step is a short conversation and a conflict check.
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