Howard M. Bloom

Howard M. Bloom is a Principal in the Boston, Massachusetts, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has practiced labor and employment law representing exclusively employers for more than 39 years.

Mr. Bloom counsels clients in a variety of industries on labor law issues. He trains and advises executives, managers and supervisors on union awareness and positive employee relations, and assists employers in connection with union card-signing efforts, traditional union representation and corporate campaigns, and union decertification campaigns. He also represents clients at the National Labor Relations Board in connection with bargaining unit issues, objections and challenges, as well as unfair labor practice investigations and trials. Mr. Bloom also has been the spokesperson at countless first and successor contract collective bargaining negotiations, and regularly advises on collective bargaining agreement administration issues, including grievance/arbitration issues.

Mr. Bloom has appeared before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, several U.S. District Courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Mr. Bloom speaks frequently to employer groups on a wide range of labor and employment law topics. He also has written extensively on labor and employment law for a variety of publications, including New England Business magazine, The Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal. He also is editor of and a frequent contributor to the Jackson Lewis Labor & Collective Bargaining Blog.

While attending law school, he was the Executive Editor of The Advocate: the Suffolk University Law School Journal and President of the Student Bar Association.

Mr. Bloom is a diehard baseball fan. His first book, The Baseball Uncyclopedia: A Highly Opinionated Myth-Busting Guide to the Great American Game, was published in February 2006.

Pro Bono and Community Involvement

•Amherst, Massachusetts, town meeting member
•Charles River School in Dover, Massachusetts, Board of Trustees

Published Works

• Employee Rights: The Latest in Corporate Grievance Procedures, Boston Business Journal (August 25-31, 1995) [Author]
• Resolving Workplace Issues, The Boston Globe (January 7, 1992) [Author]
• Supervisor/Bargaining Unit Member Participation in Union Removal Efforts: Is the Company Responsible? Labor Law Journal (April 1984) [Author]
•Employer's Guide to Employment Law. MA: Town Crier Press, 1984. [Co-Author]
•Winning NLRB Elections: Management Strategy and Preventive Programs [Contributing Author]

Howard M. Bloom In the News

Jackson Lewis Recommended in The Legal 500 2019

May 30, 2019 • Jackson Lewis

Howard Bloom, Philip Rosen and Jonathan Spitz Comment on Union Membership Trends in 2018

February 6, 2019 • Material Handling & Logistics News

Howard Bloom Comments on Implications of the Recent NLRB Rulings

January 17, 2018 • XpertHR USA

Howard M. Bloom Publications

newsletter

Top Five Labor Law Developments for April 2020

May 18, 2020

special-report

Plan Ahead, Employers: NLRB Ordering Mail Ballot Elections Because of COVID-19 Pandemic

April 29, 2020

article

NLRB: Contract Coverage Standard Is No Defense to Unilateral Change Unless CBA ‘Explicitly’ Says So

April 23, 2020

Howard M. Bloom Blog Posts

Labor & Collective Bargaining

Despite Court Ruling, NLRB Implements Much of New Election Rule

June 4, 2020
Labor & Collective Bargaining

District Court Hits “Pause” on New NLRB Election Rule

May 31, 2020
COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor

NLRB Division of Judges to Resume Unfair Labor Practice Hearings in June

May 18, 2020