Postal Book
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John J. Zodrow, is a former labor/employment lawyer/litigator with the Denver law firm of Zodrow et al. P.C. He is a former labor relations representative for the United States Postal Service, as well as a former union official for the National Association of Letter Carriers AFL-CIO. Mr. Zodrow was a long-standing professional arbitrator and served on numerous arbitration panels after mutual appointment by the Postal Service and its unions, as well as non-Postal panels. For decades, he has conducted training for both management and unions.
He has been involved in hundreds of labor arbitrations and thousands of employment cases, and his experience includes handling civil cases from state and federal district courts to the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the covenanted Million Dollar Advocates Club – which membership requires having successfully obtained million dollar verdicts, awards and settlements in civil cases – and is the recipient of numerous legal awards, including the American Jurisprudence Award. A successful former environmental attorney and courtroom litigator as well, Mr. Zodrow has been involved in federal sector labor/employment issues for nearly 25 years.
Mr. Zodrow has spent his career representing women, children and working families – in an endeavor to slow the erosion of middle-class careers and related quality-of-life for America’s working-class families. He is responsible for a number of published court decisions, including a landmark court decision which established new law by holding that a woman need not quit or be terminated from her job to maintain a claim of sexual harassment. Mr. Zodrow also is responsible for precedential case law advancing the rights of disabled persons. He has held legal jobs with governmental agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.
Mr. Zodrow actively represents federal employees, Postal workers, and other employees/employers in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints, EEOC Office of Federal Operations appeals, Merit System Protection Board hearings/appeals, unemployment hearings and other personnel matters. He has been involved in over 2000 such cases to date.