National Labor Relations Board
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
1099 Fourteenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20570
Phone, 202-273-1000. TDD, 202-273-4300
Chairman William B. Gould IV
Members Sarah M. Fox, John E. Higgins, Jr.,
(2 vacancies)
Executive Secretary John J. Toner
Solicitor Jeffrey D. Wedekind, Acting
Inspector General Robert E. Allen, Acting
Director, Division of Information David B. Parker
Chief Administrative Law Judge Robert A. Giannasi
General Counsel Fred L. Feinstein
Deputy General Counsel Mary Joyce Carlson
Associate General Counsel, Division Barry J. Kearney
of Advice
Associate General Counsel, Division Linda R. Sher
of Enforcement Litigation
Associate General Counsel, Division Richard Siegel, Acting
of Operations-Management
Director, Division of Administration Gloria J. Joseph
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Barbara T. Gainey
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The National Labor Relations Board administers the Nation's principal labor law, the National Labor Relations Act. The Board is vested with the power to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions and to safeguard employees' rights to organize and determine, through secret ballot elections, whether to have unions as their bargaining representative.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency created by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) (29 U.S.C. 167), as amended by acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act), 1959
(Landrum-Griffin Act), and 1974 (Health Care Amendments).
The act affirms the right of employees to self-organization and collective bargaining through representatives of their own choosing, to engage in other protected, concerted activities, or to refrain from such activities. The act prohibits certain unfair labor practices by employers and labor organizations or their agents. It authorizes the Board to designate appropriate units for collective bargaining and to conduct secret ballot elections to determine whether employees desire representation by a labor organization.
As of July 1, 1971, the Postal Reorganization Act (39 U.S.C. note prec. 101) conferred jurisdiction upon the Board over unfair labor practice charges and representation elections affecting
U.S. Postal Service employees. As of August 25, 1974, jurisdiction over all privately operated health care institutions was conferred on the Board by an amendment to the act (29 U.S.C. 152 et seq.).
Activities
Under the act, NLRB has two principal functions: preventing and remedying unfair labor practices by employers and labor organizations or their agents; and conducting secret ballot elections among employees in appropriate collective-bargaining units to determine whether or not they desire to be represented by a labor organization in bargaining with employers about their wages, hours, and working conditions. The agency also conducts secret ballot elections among employees who have been covered by a union-security agreement to determine whether or not they wish to revoke their union's authority to make such agreements. In jurisdictional disputes between two or more unions, the Board determines which competing group of workers is entitled to perform the work involved.
Two major, separate components comprise NLRB. The Board itself has five members appointed by the President and primarily acts as a quasi-
judicial body in deciding cases on the basis of formal records in administrative proceedings. The General Counsel, also appointed by the...
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