Peter Q. Nguyen

Peter Q. Nguyen is a Sr. Labor Relations Consultant in the Los Angeles office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore. Peter has extensive experience, having negotiated over eighty master agreements and doing labor relations work across many jurisdictions, including municipalities, special districts, non-profits, K-12, higher education, private entities, entertainment, and healthcare.  He has also engaged in complex policy analysis and political consulting, drafted legislation, and taught public policy at the university level.

Before joining LCW, Peter was Associate Director for Systemwide Labor Relations at the University of California where he helped to oversee a strategic approach to labor/employee relations for a $39.8 billion dollar enterprise consisting of ten campuses, five medical centers, and a national research laboratory.  He directly bargained and managed five of the largest contracts in the system, covering approximately 70,000 workers and worth over $5 billion. Prior to that, Peter served both the executive and legislative branches of the City of Seattle and was responsible for representing the city in collective bargaining with all five labor organizations in the Seattle Police Department.  He was able to successfully negotiate one of the biggest contracts in Washington State history, a ground-breaking $1.2 billion agreement with the police officers guild, which implemented important reforms and accountability.

Previously, while serving as a high-level executive for statewide labor organizations, Peter bargained numerous agreements for public employees, screen actors, broadcast journalists, healthcare workers, academics, skilled crafts, and service employees under multiple state and national bargaining laws, including the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA), Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA), the Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA), and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).  He is considered a master trainer and has delivered numerous workshops on collective bargaining, grievance processing, job actions, just cause, public safety, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the duty of fair representation at conferences throughout the country.  Peter has also served as a policy consultant for the King County Office of Law Enforcement Oversight and technical advisor for the City of Seattle Community Police Commission.

Peter attended UCLA School of Law where he earned his J.D. with an emphasis in Critical Race Theory and Labor/Employment Law and served on the staff of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. As an undergraduate, Peter attended UC Davis where he graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science.