Christopher Foster (Chris)

Chris Foster represents companies in labor and employment matters, focusing on protection of operations and brand. He is a trusted advisor to companies across the country navigating union organizing, election and decertification campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, and labor disputes and investigations at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and in state labor systems.

Chris also provides strategic counsel on labor and employment issues in transactions and investments, as well as in workforce restructuring and technology-integration projects.

He also represents companies and ultra high net worth family offices in employment litigation and arbitration proceedings involving contract disputes, terminations, and state and federal wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination claims.

Chris's experience prior to joining Jones Day includes representing a pre-IPO technology company where engineers rejected union representation and in securing dismissal of NLRB unfair labor practice charges; representing a medical system where nursing staff decided against union representation and in securing dismissal of NLRB unfair labor practice charges; representing global chemical manufacturers in collective bargaining agreement negotiations and in securing an incentive and cross-training program as well as expansive management rights; representing a leading national publisher in multiple collective bargaining agreements negotiations and in securing use of artificial intelligence and dismissal of unfair labor practice charges; representing a pre-IPO technology company in collective bargaining agreement negotiations achieving robust and expansive management rights; representing a leading national symphony in collective bargaining agreement negotiations; and representing a health care company in achieving dismissal of objections and unfair labor practice charges challenging decertification of a union.