Biography
Alex Tillett-Saks is an Associate Attorney at Dowd, Bloch, Bennett, Cervone, Auerbach & Yokich LLP. He specializes in representing and advising union clients in a variety of matters, including contract negotiations, arbitration hearings, internal union matters, and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board and other governmental agencies. He also has extensive experience assisting unions in navigating complex organizing drives via both the NLRB process and card check recognition, from initial corporate research through first contract ratification. Alex also represents union-sponsored employee benefit funds on a variety of matters related to ERISA. Previously, Alex served as in-house counsel for Teamsters Local 705. He is a 2015 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certificate in Labor and Employment Law and was also the Organizing Director for the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals. Alex co-authored an amicus brief to the NLRB on behalf of nineteen labor law professors nationwide in support of college athletes’ right to organize a labor union. Additionally, he co-published an article on the same topic: "Work, Study, Organize!: Why the Northwestern University Football Players are Employees Under the NLRA."