National Labor Relations Board
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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
1099 Fourteenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20570
Phone, 202-273-1000. TDD, 202-273-4300. Internet, www.nlrb.gov.
CHAIRMAN Wilma B. Liebman
Members Peter C. Schaumber, (3 vacancies)
Executive Secretary Lester A. Heltzer
Deputy Executive Secretary David B. Parker
Solicitor William B. Cowen
Inspector General David P. Berry
Representation Appeals Lafe E. Solomon
Associate Director, Division of Information (vacancy)
Chief Administrative Law Judge Robert A. Giannasi
Deputy Chief Administrative Law Judge C. Richard. Miserendino
Chief, Information Technology Richard Westfield
Deputy Chief Information Officer Bryan Burnett
General Counsel Ronald Meisburg
Deputy General Counsel John E. Higgins, Jr.
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Robert J. Poindexter
Deputy Director Brenda Valentine Harris
Associate General Counsel, Division of Richard A. Siegel
Operations-Management
Deputy Associate General Counsel Anne G. Purcell
Associate General Counsel, Division of Advice Barry J. Kearney
Deputy Associate General Counsel Ellen A. Farrell
Associate General Counsel, Division of John H. Ferguson
Enforcement Litigation
Deputy Associate General Counsel Margery E. Lieber
Director of Administration Gloria J. Joseph
Deputy Director of Administration Kathleen James
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The National Labor Relations 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 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). The Board is authorized to designate appropriate units for collective bargaining and to conduct secret ballot elections to determine whether employees desire representation by a labor organization.
Activities
The 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.
The regional directors and their staffs process representation, unfair labor practice, and jurisdictional dispute cases. They issue complaints in unfair labor practice cases; seek settlement of unfair labor practice charges; obtain compliance with Board orders and court judgments; and petition district courts for injunctions to prevent or remedy unfair labor practices. The regional directors
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direct hearings in representation cases; conduct elections pursuant to the agreement of the parties or the decision-making authority delegated...
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