Ogletree Deakins
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Melissa A. Bailey</b>: Bailey is the managing shareholder of the DC office of Ogletree Deakins, one of the most prominent anti-union law firms in the country.</span> She boasts of her extensive success in turning back OSHA lawsuits for corporate clients.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB's_Legal_Arm#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Her colleague, Harold Coxson, also based in DC, chairs Ogletree's government relations practice and is executive director of the Tuesday Group, an "informal organization" of 35 national trade associations "involved in workplace issues."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB's_Legal_Arm#cite_note-32" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a></sup> He has lobbied on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce on the Employee Free Choice Act and on NLRB confirmations.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB's_Legal_Arm#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ogletree advertises its ability to help companies in "maintaining union free status," and boasts of its "extensive experience representing management in union representation campaigns." Most of its clients "go year after year without experiencing a union election." Ogletree says that its services extend "from union card signing activity and traditional union campaigns involving NLRB elections, to campaigns involving various levels of neutrality, to multistate and even global attacks." Their experience, they say, "has familiarized us with the broad spectrum of union organizing tactics."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/NFIB's_Legal_Arm#cite_note-34" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a></sup></p>