About Kenneth L. Wagner

Listed: Best Lawyers in America (Litigation–Labor and Employment), 2018-2025 (2021 Lawyer of the Year in Syracuse); NY Super Lawyers 2011-2012, 2014-2025. Chapter Editor, “The Developing Labor Law,” 8th Edition, 2022, 7th Edition, 2017, 6th Edition, 2012. Editor, “The Developing Labor Law,” 5th Edition, 2006. Associate Editor, “The Developing Labor Law,” 4th Edition, 2001. Editor-in-Chief, 2004-2005, Associate Editor, 1998-2003, 2007-2009, Chapter Editor, 2010-2011, 2013-2016, 2018-2020, 2023-2024, and Contributing Editor, 1995-1997, “The Developing Labor Law,” Annual Cumulative Supplement. Co-Chair: ABA Developing Labor Law (DLL) Committee, 2003-2006; Midwinter Meeting Program, 2000-2003. Speaker: NYSBA CLE Conference, “NLRA Limitations on the Scope of Workplace Policies,” October 24, 2014; 2009 DLL Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, CA, “Our Deal Trumps My Bargaining Rights Only if I Said So: The Board’s Reaffirmation of Its Waiver Doctrine in Unilateral Change Cases,” Published 25 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 57 (2009); 2003 DLL Midwinter Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, “What Should the Bargaining Rights of a Discriminatory Successor Employer Be?”; 1997 DLL Midwinter Meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, “‘No’ Means ‘No’ When a Party ‘Really’ Says So: The NLRB’s Continued Adherence to the Clear and Unmistakable Waiver Doctrine in Unilateral Change Cases,” Published 13 The Labor Lawyer 325, Fall 1997. President, Board of Directors, Legal Services of Central New York, 2000-2002. Member, Central New York Chapter, Labor and Employment Research Association. Member, AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee.

 

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Areas of Law

  • Labor and Employment
  • Other 2
    • Employee Rights
    • Union Labor Law

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    Partner
    Firm Name
    Blitman & King LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Moore v. AFSCME Local 1095, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 15773 (2d Cir. 2023) (affirming 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86365 (W.D.N.Y. 2022))
    Local 97, IBEW v. NRG Energy, Inc., 53 F.4th 42 (2d Cir. 2022)
    Central Pension Fund v. Ray Haluch Gravel Co., 695 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2012), reversed, 571 U.S. 177, 134 S.Ct. 773 (2014), on rem
    , 745 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2014)
    Smith v. New Venture Gear, Inc., 320 Fed. Appx. 33 (2d Cir. 2009) (affirming 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4468 (N.D.N.Y. 2008))
    Smith v. New Venture Gear, Inc., 319 Fed. Appx. 52 (2d Cir. 2009) (affirming 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72945 (N.D.N.Y. 2007))
    Carter v. New Venture Gear, Inc., 310 Fed. Appx. 454 (2d Cir. 2009) (affirming 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71695 (N.D.N.Y. 2007))
    Dow Elec., Inc. v. IBEW Local Union No. 910, 283 Fed. Appx. 841 (2d Cir. 2008) (affirming 500 F. Supp. 2d 148 (N.D.N.Y. 2007))
    Jacque v. Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp., 16 Fed Appx. 52 (2d Cir. 2001)
    Turgeon v. Operating Engineers, Local No. 98, 2 Fed. Appx. 176 (2d Cir. 2001)
    Upstate N.Y. Engineers Health Fund v. Cambria Constr., Inc., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 67560 (N.D.N.Y. 2025)
    Colacino v. Davis, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 122649 (S.D.N.Y. 2020)
    Moore v. AFSCME Local 1095, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39502 (W.D.N.Y. 2020)
    Cruz v. UAW Local 2300, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 215593 (N.D.N.Y. 2019)
    International Union of Operating Engineers Local 98 Health
    Welfare Fund v. S & R Corp., 95 F. Supp. 3d 1 (D. Mass. 2015), later proceeding, 174 F. Supp. 3d 579 (D. Mass. 2016)
    Cunningham v. Figurilli, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19854 (N.D.N.Y. 2013)
    Andrews v. A.C. Roman & Assocs., 914 F. Supp. 2d 230 (N.D.N.Y. 2012)
    Ferguson v. New Venture Gear, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78111 (N.D.N.Y. 2009)
    Gallagher v. IBEW Local Union No. 43, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 81615 (N.D.N.Y. 2008)
    Burke v. New Venture Gear, Inc., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25155 (N.D.N.Y. 2008)
    United Steel, Paper
    Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing Energy, Allied Industrial
    Service Workers Int’l Union, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 79383 (W.D.N.Y. 2006)
    Jones v. DaimlerChrysler Corp., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44036 (N.D.N.Y. 2006)
    IBEW, Local 910 v. Roberts, 992 F. Supp. 132 (N.D.N.Y. 1998)
    New York Air Brake Corp. v. General Signal Corp., 873 F. Supp. 747 (N.D.N.Y. 1995)
    Palladino v. CNY Centro, Inc., 23 N.Y.3d 140 (2014) (affirming 101 A.D.3d 1653 (4th Dep’t 2012))
    Matter of City of Syracuse (Syracuse Police Benevolent Ass’n, Inc., 198 A.D.3d 1322 (4th Dep’t 2021)
    Palladino v. CNY Centro, Inc., 74 A.D.3d 1909 (4th Dep’t 2010)
    Ahern v. State, 174 Misc. 2d 123 (N.Y. Ct. Claims 1997), aff’d, 244 A.D. 2d 7 (3d Dep’t 1998)
    Novelis Corp., 364 NLRB No. 101 (2016), enforced in part, vacated in part,
    rem
    ed, Novelis Corp. v. NLRB, 885 F.3d 100 (2d Cir. 2018)
    Mountainside Farms, a Div. of Worcester Creameries Corp., 2013 NLRB LEXIS 686, Case No. 3-CA-097023 (ALJD 2013)
    Laborers, Local 210, 1998 NLRB LEXIS 723, Case No. 3-CB-20634 (ALJD 1998)
    Police Benevolent Ass’n of the N.Y.S. Troopers, Inc., 41 PERB P 3013 (2008)
    State of New York (Division of State Police), 30 PERB P 3037 (1997)
    New York State Police Investigators Ass’n, 30 PERB P 3013 (1997), confirmed sub nom., New York State Police Investigators Ass’n v. Public Employment Relations Board, 30 PERB P 7011 (Sup. Ct. Albany Cty. 1997)
    Syracuse Firefighters Ass’n, Local 280, 47 PERB P 4543 (2014)
    Onondaga Cty. Dep. Sheriffs’ Police Ass’n, 46 PERB 4596 (2013).
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  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1991, New York
    1993, U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
    1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York
    2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    2011, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
    2012, U.S. Supreme Court
    2014, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
    2019, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
    Memberships
    American (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), New York State (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section), and Onondaga County Bar Associations. AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance.
  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Syracuse University College of Law
    Class of 1990
    J.D.
    cum laude
    Other Education
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Class of 1984
    B.A.
    with departmental honors
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1960
    Norwalk, Connecticut

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