Andrew M. Kramer (Andy)

Partner

Andy Kramer has a wide range of experience in a number of phases of labor and employment law. He represents employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. He negotiates collective bargaining agreements and provides counseling and advice on the development of employment and labor relations strategies for a broad group of employers across many industry lines.

Representative industries that Andy has worked for include automotive, automotive parts, aluminum, steel bearings, newspapers, tires, electrical, insurance, hospitality, shipbuilding, packaging, banking, and oil and gas. Andy has been directly involved in how companies and unions reshape their health care plans, with particular emphasis on retiree health care benefits. He has been one of the lead negotiators and/or advisors on this issue for a number of major companies in several different industries, and he has been at the forefront in establishing VEBAs in the automotive and rubber industries that significantly impact how retiree health benefits are provided for workers in those industries.

Andy is the Firm's Client Affairs partner. He is a member of The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the ABA (Labor and Employment Law Section) and previously served on the National Manufacturers Association Labor Law Advisory Committee, the National Labor Relations Board Management Advisory Panel, and the Johns Hopkins Advisory Council on Environment and Health. He was appointed to and served on the Commission on State Department Personnel from 1992 through 1993 and was executive director of the Illinois Office of Collective Bargaining from 1973 through 1974.