Pamela Jeffrey

Pamela Jeffrey (State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D; Barnard College, B.A.), began her career in labor when she became a rank-and-file activist and then a staff organizer on District 65, UAW’s organizing drive at Columbia University that resulted in a ground‑breaking contract for university support staff. Jeffrey currently serves as General Counsel to 1199SEIU, representing over 400,000 healthcare workers. Jeffrey has devoted her legal career to representing unions and workers in the robust exercise of their rights, including in collective bargaining, arbitrations, internal union governance, litigation and before the National Labor Relations Board in unfair labor practice and representation proceedings.

In addition to her extensive labor work, Jeffrey has represented plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases, including Latino Officers Ass’n, et. al, v. City of New York, et al., a class-action case involving discrimination in the NYPD’s internal disciplinary system.

Jeffrey regularly speaks and writes and on a variety of labor and employment topics.

Jeffrey is a member of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, an active member of the ABA’s Committee on Practice and Procedure Under the NLRA, and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.