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WMassey@grmny.com
Bill Massey joined the firm in 2004. He has handled a broad range of cases involving union elections, organizing drives, and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board and the Public Employment Relations Board. Mr. Massey has also successfully represented unions in federal injunction proceedings, including reverse Boys Market cases blocking the sales of nursing homes, and 10(j) cases reinstating union recognition and the employment of fired union activists. He has also defended unions against picketing and strike-related lawsuits. Mr. Massey has extensive collective bargaining experience, including negotiating first contracts and multi-employer agreements setting industry-wide standards. He also handles contract interpretation, discipline, and interest arbitrations.
In addition to his union work, Mr. Massey has litigated numerous wage and hour cases in federal court on behalf of low-wage workers, including groups of restaurant and delivery workers, food truck vendors, night club waitresses, and car wash workers. He also has represented rank-and-file members and union officers in union democracy cases, and drafted legislation. Mr. Massey has served as counsel to members of the Venceremos Brigade and has trained and coordinated international delegations of election observers at the Center for International Solidarity in El Salvador. In 2012 and 2013, he was a professor in CUNY Law School’s clinical program, where he supervised students in the workers’ rights docket. He regularly speaks at law schools and other legal conferences, and conducts trainings in labor law, collective bargaining, and grievance handling for union representatives.
Mr. Massey received his J.D. from the CUNY School of Law in 2004. Prior to attending law school, he was a member, delegate, and organizer with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East for five years. Mr. Massey received his undergraduate degree in U.S. Labor History and Latin American History from Columbia University in 1995. He is licensed in both New York and New Jersey state and federal courts, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and D.C. Circuits. Mr. Massey is fluent in Spanish.
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