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W. Daniel Boone Email: dboone@unioncounsel.net Education: Dan Boone has worked for Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld since 1979, and has represented unions in approximately 2,500 arbitrations during the past 31 years. Formerly, he was responsible for administering the arbitration practice for Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, and has served as Managing Shareholder and Member of the Firm’s Management Committee during the last 10 years. The firm opens approximately 1000 arbitration files a year, for clients throughout the western United States and Hawaii. Dan Boone has served on the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law section of the State Bar of California, and the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. He has participated in National Academy Annual meetings and contributed to the Proceeding of NAA. Dan Boone is a 1968 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and in 1965 a graduate of Amherst College, majoring in philosophy. Prior legal experience: United Farmworkers Union, AFL-CIO, 1974-1978 NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS: Boone, W.D., Arbitrator Acceptability: How Union Advocates Select Arbitrators, in Arbitration 2003: Arbitral Decision Making: Confronting Current and Recurrent Issues, Proceedings of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, ed. Coleman (BNA, 2004) 266 Brogan, Boone, Schauer, Workplace Violence: When is a Threat a Threat?, Arbitration 2005, The Evolving World of Work, Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, ed. Gerhart and Befort (BNA 2005) 184 Boone, Steele, Threats of Violence in the Workplace The Union Perspective (addendum to Chapter 8, Workplace Violence: When is a Threat a Threat? Arbitration 2005, The Evolving World of Work, Proceedings of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, ed. Gerhart and Befort (BNA 2005) 214 Boone, Steele How to Have an Arbitration Hearing in One Day or Less: Whatever Happened to the One-Day Arbitration? Expedited Arbitration Procedures as an Effective Method for Combating Delay, Increased Cost, and Formality, Labor Arbitration, Arbitration 2007, Workplace Justice for a Changing Environment, Proceedings of the Sixtieth Annual Meeting, National Academy of Arbitrators, ed. Befort and Halter, asst ed Staudohar (BNA 2007), 85 SELECTED OTHER PUBLICATIONS: Boone, Ndaizee, African-Americans and Emotional Distress Damages, Calif. Labor & Employment Law Quarterly, Vol. 11, No 4 (Fall, 1997) Boone, Franklin, Judicial Review of Arbitration Awards Under Private Sector Collective Bargaining Agreements in California, Calif Labor & Employment Law Quarterly, Vol 13, No. 1 (Spring, 1999) Boone, The Role of Credibility in Employment/Labor Cases Investigating to Uncover the Truth, The Labor & Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California, 1997 Spring Symposium (1997) SELECTED REPORTED DECISIONS AS UNION ATTORNEY: Hawaii Teamsters & Allied Workers Union, Local 996 v. United Parcel Service, 241 F.3d 1177, (9th Cir, 2001) (Arbitration Award upholding summary termination of UPS driver not charged with violation of contractual “cardinal sin;” confirmed as satisfying Trilogy review standards.) Am. Postal Workers Union v. Postmaster Gen., 781 F.2d 772; (9th Cir, 1986) (Accommodation for postal clerk who had religiously founded objections to processing draft registration forms.) City and County of San Francisco v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 39, 151 Cal. App. 4th 938 (2007) (Gov’t Code grants PERB exclusive jurisdiction to decide whether Union required to arbitrate outstanding labor disputes; writ and petition to compel denied.) International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, etc. v. Laughon, 118 Cal.App. 4th 1380 (2004) (Employment arbitration award vacated because Arbitrator did not disclose his prior employment as an Arbitrator in a non-collective bargaining case involving the Union’s law firm.) Teamsters Local 856 v. Priceless, LLC, 112 Cal.App.4th 1500 (2003) (Public employees have a legally protected right of privacy in their personnel files; preliminary injunction prohibiting newspaper publication of salaries of individually named employees affirmed.) City of Oakland v. Public Employees’ Ret. Sys., 95 Cal.App.4th 29 (2002) (PERS retroactively reclassified airport employees as firefighters, making them eligible for superior retirement benefits; upheld in Court of Appeal.) City of Palo Alto v. Serv. Employees Internat. Union, 77 Cal.App.4th 327 (1999) (Court rejects “public policy” claim to vacate reinstatement of public employee who threatened to shoot coworker and his family. Reinstatement not necessarily incompatible with public policy requiring employers to provide a safe workplace. However, award was contrary to Superior Court injunctive order requiring employee to stay away from workplace, and therefore irreconcilable with the public policy requiring obedience to court orders.) Social Services Union v. Alameda County Training & Employment Bd., 207Cal.App.3d 1458 (1989) (Arbitrator’s Award ordering promotion of public employee did not exceed his authority, was not contrary to public policy, and did not conflict with agency’s personnel policies; award confirmed.) Civil Serv. Ass’n v. Redevelopment Agency, 166 Cal.App.3d 1222 (1985) (Termination of public employee voided by failure of agency to follow its own personnel rules.) Serv. Employees Internat. Union v. Sacramento City Unified Sch. Dist., 151 Cal.App.3d 705 (1984) (Writ upholding order of benefits for summer bus drivers.) SEIU v. Hollywood Park, 149 Cal.App. 3d 745 (1983) (Racetrack security guards have causes of action for wrongful discharge and denial of rights under Labor Code Section 923 (right to organize).) Sunnyside Nurseries, Inc. v. Agricultural Labor Relations Bd., 93 Cal.App. 3d 922 (1979) (Review of ALRB unfair labor practice findings.) Practice Areas: |
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