Omer Khwaja Email & Phone Number

Hoboken, NJ

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Portland, OR.

Seton Hall University School Of Law

• Analyzed public documents relating to GTMO detainments.
• Collaborated with fellows in compiling and presenting research relating to detainee profiles.

Kearny, NJ

Greater New York City Area

• Drafted portions of brief in reply to Daubert motion to exclude valuation reports offered to prove damages before the Southern Federal District Court of New York.
• Represented union member before the Texas Workforce Commission & Unemployment Appeal Board, ALJ Section (Brooklyn).
• Assisted attorneys in reviewing, editing, and drafting advisory memos, collective bargaining agreements, letters, & other communication to clients, including labor unions, pension funds, and individual employees.
• Assisted attorneys, clients, and union bargaining committees during intake interviews, settlement conferences, single & multi-employer bargaining sessions.
• Note-taker during contract negotiations, grievance hearings; meetings with expert witnesses, intake interviews with clients, and litigation strategy & settlement conferences.
• Researched and drafted memos relating to union democracy, liability of business alter egos for breaches of fiduciary and contractual obligations to unions, employees, health and welfare plans, and pension plans.

Westwood New Jersey

-Drafting answers to foreclosure complaints.-Reviewing case materials prior to settlement of foreclosure proceedings.

New York, NY

• Peggy Browning Summer Law Fellow
• Prepared short time-sensitive memos on a variety of legal issues including: (i) 3rd Circuit precedent regarding waiver of FLSA claims through the inclusion of a general arbitration provision in a collective bargaining.
• Worked with union delegate on developing ULP charge based on illegal retaliation against union activists at a New Jersey healthcare facility.
• Observed and assisted during bargaining and arbitration sessions concerning continuation of healthcare benefits, policies relating to severance, and discipline proceedings for public and private sector workers in New.

Houston, Texas Area

• Conducted research in areas of labor law relating to airports and security organizing campaign.
• Assisted workers in filing successful wage-claims with Texas Workforce Commission and unfair labor practice charges, including a National Mediation Board decision regarding jurisdiction over passenger-service workers.
• Directed electoral efforts by overseeing recruitment, training, and field operations.

Baltimore, Maryland

*Identified workplace issues and lobbied around worksite concerns in four different state agencies: motor vehicle administration, social services, mental health and corrections. *Spearheaded successful petition campaign to get double time for thousands of essential employees who worked during a blizzard. *Successfully lobbied Maryland state legislature for.

Chicago, IL

MA Thesis: “Doing it Broke for a While”: The Indigenous Rationality of Boston’s Private Security Officers (Advisor: Omar McRoberts)Relevant Coursework: Employment and Labor Law, Urban Structure and Process, Social Movements, Political Economy of Public Policy, Ethnographic Methods.

Greater Boston Area

*Worked on successful campaign to win employer recognition and first contract for a bargaining unit of 1,500 low-wage security officers in Boston and Cambridge. Campaign was conducted by identifying workplace concerns and recruiting worksite leaders to address those concerns during contract negotiations.

Greater Detroit Area

Volunteer Recruitment, Bird-dogging, Actions, Logistics, Coalitions, Communications, Community Organizing, Leadership Development

* North Philadelphia: Agitated around seniors’ concerns over lack of city and state assistance; * Los Angeles: Worked on a union recognition campaign for security officers; * Texas: Lobbied in state capitol against method of privatization for TXU, a major utility * Brooklyn: Supervised a team of canvassers opposing closing of state hospitals. * Cincinnati.

Masters, Social Science

Relevant Coursework. Employment and Labor Law, Urban Structure and Process, Social Movements, Political Economy of Public Policy.

Ba, Philosophy

Philosophy, African American Studies