The announcement that Allison Beck has been nominated to be Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is welcome news. Allison Beck is superbly qualified to run FMCS, having served with distinction as FMCS’s Deputy Director over the past five years, after a long career as a respected labor lawyer. Her recent work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where she successfully brought labor and management together to reach a collective bargaining agreement and avoid a harmful lockout, is but the latest example of her skills and tenacity in achieving positive labor-management outcomes. It is also significant that Beck will be the first woman to hold the position of FMCS Director. We applaud the President and congratulate Beck on this important milestone.
The FMCS plays a crucially important role in building and promoting constructive labor-management relationships. We urge the Senate to move quickly on Beck’s nomination to this important post.
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