FLRA NEWSFLRA NEWSGENERAL COUNSEL SWERDZEWSKI CONFIRMED FOR SECOND FIVE-YEAR TERM
The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) announced that General Counsel Joe Swerdzewski has been confirmed by the United States Senate for a second five-year term. Mr. Swerdzewski was renominated by President Clinton in September 1998, and was confirmed by the Senate on October 21, 1998, the final day of the 105th Congress.
During his first term, Mr. Swerdzewski’s accomplishments include significantly improving the General Counsel’s ability to enforce the Statute through the development of new policies and approaches which greatly aided in the timely investigation and prosecution of violations of the Federal Service Labor Management Relations Statute. At the same time, he conducted numerous Town Meetings and issued public guidance on various issues which helped both labor and management to better understand their obligations under the law and suggested approaches to improve the way they dealt with each other. Additionally, Mr. Swerdzewski was at the forefront in the development of collaborative labor management relations under President Clinton’s Executive Order 12871. His second term will begin with the publication of the first ever Unfair Labor Practice Litigation Manual and the first comprehensive update of the Unfair Labor Practice investigatory regulations and case handling manual since the creation of the FLRA in 1979.
Mr. Swerdzewski stated, “I am honored to have again been nominated by President Clinton and to have been confirmed by the United States Senate. I will continue to work to improve the Federal sector labor management relations program and to provide the highest quality services to the Federal Labor Relations community.”
A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Fordham University Law School, Mr. Swerdzewski joined the FLRA in 1979. He has served in the FLRA’s Los Angeles and Denver Regional Offices. Mr. Swerdzewski has three sons and two stepsons and resides with his wife, Gayle, in Herndon, Virginia.
The FLRA is in an independent agency that administers the labor-management relations program for 1.9 million federal employees worldwide, 1.1 million of whom are exclusively represented in more than 2,200 bargaining units. The Office of the General Counsel is the independent investigative and prosecutorial component of the FLRA. The General Counsel, Joe Swerdzewski, directs the FLRA’s seven Regional Offices located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.