Private + Public Sector Unions
Florice Hoffman has been legal counsel to unions representing both private and public sector employees for over thirty years. Her clients range from healthcare to public transportation unions. She has experience with negotiating and drafting collective bargaining agreements, contract administration and enforcement, grievance and arbitrations, organizing campaigns and representation petitions, and unfair labor practice proceedings. Florice has assisted with the day-to-day union administration issues, union elections, record keeping and reporting requirements and the unions’ internal labor and employment issues, including compliance and defending unions as employers. Florice has extensive litigation experience in federal and state courts, and before governmental agencies, governmental board and commissions, administrative law judges, and arbitrators for her union clients. Florice Hoffman litigated one of the first cases at the NLRB to determine that employees were misclassified as independent contractors in Roadway Package System, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Roadway Services, Inc. and Wholesale and Retail Food, Distribution, Teamsters Local 63, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, AFL-CIO, Petitioner. Cases 31-RC-7267 and 31-RC-7277 (1998). In addition, she successfully appealed to the 9th Circuit a union’s right to extend picket lines in Standard Concrete Products, Inc. v. Teamsters Local 952 United States Court of Appeals, 353 F.3d 668 (9th Cir. 2003). In 2010, Hoffman was successful in persuading the NLRB to seek an injunction against Kaiser Permanente for failing to maintain the status quo during negotiations for a first union contract.