Effectively Navigating Labor Relations for Charter Schools
Gain crucial insights from two of the California's leading legal experts on current labor relations in California’s charter schools.
This essential session will explain the legal framework with an emphasis on employer rights and obligations, as well as actionable best practices for proactively building and maintaining positive, productive labor relationships.
Presented by
Chastin Pierman
Partner/Attorney at Law
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
Chastin Pierman has exclusively represented charter schools in California since 2005. Chastin’s practice covers all aspects of labor and employment law, including serving as a negotiator for school boards throughout California. Chastin frequently works before California’s Public Employment Relations Board in all matters related to unions and charter schools, in particular responding to union organizing campaigns, defense of Unfair Practice Charges, and impasse matters. Chastin has also served as chief negotiator on many of the first labor agreements for charter schools in California.
James Young
Partner/Founder
Young, Minney & Corr, LLP
Founding Principal Jim Young began his career in education as a high school teacher in 1986, and since becoming an attorney in 1992, he has worked exclusively representing public schools. Jim continues to work at the forefront of important issues for charter schools in California addressing employment law, labor relations, board governance and student discipline since the early years of the Charter Schools Act. Jim’s extensive work as general counsel to school districts throughout the 1990s has proven a unique and invaluable resource in effectively representing charter schools in most legal concerns.
