Professional Experience
Jon Pettibone’s practice experience includes advising management on labor and employment strategies and representing it before federal and state courts and agencies, before arbitrators and in collective bargaining. Mr. Pettibone has:
- Obtained complete dismissal, following a multiday trial, of all unfair labor practice allegations in an NLRB complaint alleging bad faith bargaining, premature impasse declaration, unilateral implementation of terms and conditions of employment, unlawful permanent replacement of strikers and various lesser alleged violations.
- Negotiated a master collective bargaining agreement following a five-month multistate strike in the mining industry, to replace nine expired contracts with eight different unions.
- Obtained Ninth Circuit reversal of an NLRB bargaining order against a hospital.
- Obtained Ninth Circuit holding that harassment by aircraft manufacturer supervisor was not unlawful because directed at both sexes.
- Obtained Ninth Circuit reversal of sanctions against a restaurant chain for knowingly hiring an undocumented worker.
- Obtained Ninth Circuit holding that state law wrongful discharge complaint should be dismissed because it was “artfully plead” to avoid federal preemption under a collective bargaining agreement.
- Obtained wage freezes in back-to-back interest arbitrations for the same employer group and preserved its most-favored-nation clause.
- Obtained NLRB reversal of regional director’s finding that nuclear power plant interfered with NLRB election by conducting a raffle.
- Negotiated the largest wage and benefit reductions among several industry producers in a concessionary bargaining year.
- Obtained Arizona appellate court holding that closure of an instrumentation service facility was not a plant closing for employee benefits purposes.
- Obtained Arizona appellate court order directing trial court to consider enforcement of arbitration provision in age discrimination and handbook breach case.
- Successfully tried OSHA citations in construction fatality case.
- Obtained withdrawal of seven willful and repeat OSHA citations in one smelter industry case.
Education and Honors
- Arizona State University College of Law (J.D., 1976)
- Arizona State University (B.S., high distinction, 1973)
University of California, San Diego, Regents’ Scholar.
Bar Admissions
Arizona,
1976
Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court, 1996
U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1986
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 1980
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1976
Professional Recognition
Listed in
The Best Lawyers in America® (1985-present: Administrative Law, Labor and Employment Law)
.Listed in
Chambers USA® (2003-present: Labor & Employment).
Martindale-Hubbell AV
® Peer Review Rated.
Selected for inclusion in the 2007-2012
Southwest Super Lawyers® lists (Employment & Labor).
Honored for his Outstanding Service to the College of Law by the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law (2011).
Professional and Civic Activities
- State Bar of Arizona (Member, Labor and Employment Section; Co-chair, Labor and Employment Section,
1980-1983).
- American Bar Association (Member, Labor and Employment Section, Individual Rights Committee).
- Arizona Bar Foundation (Fellow).
- Arizona Industrial Relations Association (Executive Board, 1990-1994).
- National Labor Relations Board (Attorney, Region 28, 1977-1980).
- Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona (Instructor, Labor Relations, 1979-1980).
- City of Phoenix Public Safety Personnel Retirement Boards (Member, Police and Fire Boards, 1989-1993).
- City of Phoenix (South Mountain Park Planning Committee, 1987-1988).
- Phoenix School of Law (Adjunct Professor, 2008).