Rodolfo R. Agraz

*Currently licensed in Georgia and North Carolina only.

Fito Agraz has experience helping a broad spectrum of clients with labor and employment challenges. His practice is limited exclusively to matters of federal labor law. He represents clients in diverse industries in union representation and decertification cases, labor arbitrations, collective bargaining and litigation before the National Labor Relations Board. Additionally, he advises clients on best practices in labor relations and the development of comprehensive labor strategies to preserve the ability to maintain direct relationships with employees. He works with executive leadership and first-line supervisory staff to build a positive working environment. Fito is fluent in Spanish, and serves as a member of the firm’s traditional labor and diversity and inclusion steering committees.

Fito’s broad base of experience includes:

representing clients in manufacturing, distribution, teleservices, chemical, petroleum, medical laboratory, transportation, hospitality, healthcare, food production, restaurant, aerospace and automotive industries throughout the United States during union organizing attempts;
serving as chief negotiator in first contract, subsequent contract, and post-bankruptcy negotiations; and
training supervisors and managers in a wide variety of federal labor relations matters.

NLRB General Counsel Says Confidentiality, Nondisparagement Clause Decision Applies Retroactively

On March 22, 2023, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum clarifying the Board’s February 2023 decision that nondisparagement and confidentiality provisions in severance agreements are unlawful. In the memorandum, the GC states that she interprets the decision to apply retroactively to agreements already signed and that claims would not be time-barred as long as an employer maintains or enforces such terms.

Mexico’s New Requirements to Validate Existing Collective Bargaining Agreements: What Employers Need to Know

On July 31, 2019, Mexico’s Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare or Secretaría del Trabajo y Previsión Social (STPS) published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (Diario Oficial de la Federación) (DOF) the protocol to legitimize currently existing collective bargaining agreements (CBAs).

What Did You Say? – Social Media And The NLRB

The website Wikipedia defines social media as “media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques.” Key to social media is “the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.” Social media has a natural tendency to allow the user to connect with multitudes of users and provide each of those users the ability to instantly respond to both the original author and those undefined multitudes.