Ernest B. Orsatti

Call 888-534-6016 or contact us to schedule your FREE Case Review Ernest B. Orsatti concentrates his practice in labor and employment law in Western Pennsylvania and throughout the country. He has represented unions in more than 3,000 labor arbitration proceedings and provides counsel to unions on a daily basis. He also negotiates collective bargaining agreements, including national multi-employer/multi-union agreements, with experience in the private and public sectors. Ernie also serves a neutral arbitrator. He has extensive experience representing local and international unions in state and federal litigation, and representation before administrative agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board, United States Department of Labor, Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Ohio Supreme Court, the West Virginia Supreme Court, and various federal and state appellate courts. Ernie also has extensive experience handling and/or litigating cases related to alleged breach of duty of fair representation, injunctions, Section 301 suits to enforce collective bargaining agreements, employment discrimination, hot cargo, RICO, antitrust, Section 303 damage claims, Section 301 damage claims, secondary boycotts, Davis-Bacon Act, petitions to enforce and to vacate arbitration awards, WARN Act, ERISA, unfair labor practice charges, representation cases, the Wage Payment and Collection Law, Prevailing Wage Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Landrum-Griffin Act, hiring hall matters, construction industry picketing, AFL-CIO Article XX work jurisdiction, and serving as fund counsel to pension and health and welfare funds. A graduate of Central Catholic High School, Ernie earned his degree in Political Science from Marquette University and his J.D. from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University (formerly Duquesne University School of Law). He served on active duty in the United States Army and as a part-time military lawyer in the United States Army Reserves Judge Advocate General’s Corp, ascending to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Ernie is an active member of the labor and employment law section of the American Bar Association, where he served as a chapter editor for the treatise “The Developing Labor Law.” He has also been a contributing editor to the treatise “How Arbitration Works” by Elkouri & Elkouri. Ernie is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, The Westmoreland Bar Association, and the Allegheny County Bar Association, where he serves as a member of the Professional Ethics Committee. Ernie is a member of the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance. Ernie served on the legal committee of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He is a member of WPELA (Western Pennsylvania Employment Lawyers Association).