Shareholder
Tiffany Crain
Sacramento, CA
Email: tcrain@unioncounsel.net
Telephone: 916-443-6600
Education:
University of San Francisco School of Law, J.D., 2014
Chapman University, B.A., 2006
Practice Areas:
Appellate Litigation
Class Actions and Wage and Hour Litigation
Collective Bargaining
Labor Arbitrations
Organizing Campaigns
Political and Legislative Action
Private Sector Labor Relations
Public Sector Labor Relations
Real Estate
Training for Union Advocates
Workplace Immigration Developments
Union Governance
Tiffany Crain joined Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in 2016. Ms. Crain represents public and private sector unions in California and Nevada. Her primary focus is providing representation in labor arbitrations, administrative hearings, and litigation, as well as delivering training to union staff and member leaders. She litigates on behalf of unions and workers in state and federal courts as well as before state and federal agencies. Ms. Crain also has extensive experience serving as chief negotiator for public-sector labor unions in collective bargaining, having secured economic and non-economic gains for bargaining units ranging from 100 to 2,000 employees.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Crain worked at the Law Offices of Jacqueline Brown Scott, an immigration law firm in San Francisco, where she worked primarily on cases involving children seeking asylum. During law school, Ms. Crain worked for Legal Aid at Work in multiple capacities, clerking for the nonprofit’s Wage Protection Program and serving as a clinic counselor for its Workers’ Rights Clinic. Ms. Crain also worked as a law clerk at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and volunteered at California Rural Legal Assistance in Salinas, Calif., as well as for Dolores Street Community Services’ immigration clinic in San Francisco.
Ms. Crain comes from an organizing and workers’ rights background that predates her legal career. Prior to entering law school, Ms. Crain served as the co-executive director of Young Workers United, a workers’ rights organization in San Francisco. Ms. Crain also worked as a community organizer at Congregations Organizing for Renewal (COR), a faith-based community organization in southern Alameda County. In this role, Ms. Crain organized at churches and schools around issues of affordable housing, parent involvement in schools, violence prevention, and immigration-related issues.
Ms. Crain received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Peace Studies from Chapman University and her juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Ms. Crain is licensed to practice law in California and Nevada. She is proficient in spoken and written Spanish.
Notable Accomplishments at WRR
Ms. Crain served as chief negotiator for SEIU Local 1021’s 1,800 represented classified employees at Sacramento City Unified School District in 2022, leading the bargaining team through complex collective bargaining agreement negotiations. When these negotiations failed to yield a contract in light of the District’s unfair practices, Ms. Crain advised the client on myriad legal and logistical concerns as the union engaged in an eight-day unfair practice strike in tandem with the Sacramento City Teachers Association. These negotiations resulted in significant raises and bonuses for the workers who feed, transport and care for students of SCUSD yet had previously earned scarcely more than minimum wage. The campaign also forged and solidified an incredible solidarity and unity between the two unions and their approximately 3,800 combined represented employees in the second-largest school district in California.
Ms. Crain represented a construction trade union in Nevada that was sued for defamation by a construction company after it publicly challenged the company's illegal underpayment of workers on a prominent construction project on the Las Vegas Strip. Under Ms. Crain’s leadership, WRR obtained full dismissal of the contractor’s defamation claims. Ms. Crain also concurrently represented a fair contracting organization that the union and regional fair contractors funded as the organization pursued backpay to remedy the company’s theft of wages from the nearly 30 workers who had experience wage theft while working on the same construction project. In this matter, Ms. Crain represented the organization from its filing and successful pursuit of wage claims with the Nevada Labor Commissioner and successfully opposed the employer’s appeal of awards up to the Nevada Supreme Court. Through these efforts, the contractor was ordered to pay significant sums to the harmed workers as well as to the union to cover attorney’s fees.