Jolene Kramer
Shareholder Emeryville, CA
Email: jkramer@unioncounsel.net
Telephone: 510-337-1001
Education:
J.D., George Washington University Law School, 2008
B.A., University of California, San Diego, 2004
Practice Areas:
Appellate Litigation
Apprenticeship Programs
Bankruptcy
Collective Bargaining
Competitive Bidding and Prevailing Wage Laws
Labor and Trust Fund Arbitrations
Labor-Management Cooperation Committees
Organizing Campaigns
Nonprofit Organizations
Political and Legislative Action
Private Sector Labor Relations
Training for Union Advocates
Union Governance
Ms. Kramer is a shareholder at Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld and joined the firm in 2012. Her public works practice focuses on local, regional and national competitive bidding, fair contracting, prevailing wage compliance, and labor code enforcement matters, as well as legislative drafting and campaigns. She also consults on federal wage surveys and Davis-Bacon matters. In addition, a substantial part of her practice is legislative work on behalf of building trades councils, including negotiation of project labor agreements and community benefits agreements.
Ms. Kramer also handles collections and bankruptcy matters, with a focus on representing unions and trust fund clients as creditors. Ms. Kramer also conducts labor arbitrations, prosecuting collective bargaining agreement violations concerning contract interpretation and employee disciplinary actions on behalf of union clients.
Prior to joining Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, Ms. Kramer represented joint labor-management trust funds with an emphasis in ERISA litigation. She is admitted to practice law in the state of California and is a member of the San Francisco Bar Association and the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section.
Ms. Kramer received her undergraduate degree in sociology from the University of California at San Diego and her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.
Publications + Presentations
Weingarten Rights, “Hey, the Boss Called Just Called Me Into the Office,” UC Berkeley Labor Center.