George Schatzki practiced labor-management relations law, first with the National Labor Relations Board and later in private practice. In 1965, he joined the law faculty at the University of Texas, remaining until 1979 when he became the Dean of the law school at the University of Washington. Five years later he accepted the deanship at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he remained as a professor until he joined the faculty at the ASU College of Law in 2000.
Professor Schatzki has written numerous articles about labor law and employment discrimination law, and has co-authored two casebooks (and their later editions) in the same fields.