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The Division of Public Employee Labor Relations was created beginning with the Nixon White House wanting the Labor Department to provide some reaction to Civil Rights actities in the late 60s and into the 70s, and particularly as it related to public employee organizing with a civil rights connection.

FMCS Directors List

Rich Giacolone

June 1, 2024

Articles, Blog, FMCS History Documents, FMCS Papers, Public Labor Relations

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Directors of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (with the date they took office listed and the President who made the appointment shown in parentheses), are as follows: The Biden Administration has failed to nominate and confirm an FMCS Director. Cyrus S. Ching (1947; Truman) David L. Cole (1952; Truman) Whitney P. McCoy (1953; Eisenhower) Joseph F. Finnegan (1955; Eisenhower) […]