With two members the FLRA is continuing to issue decisions on labor-management disputes, but with a split by party. Image: Burdun Iliya/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffPresident Biden has nominated Anne Marie Wagner, associate special counsel at the Office of Special Counsel, for the vacant seat on the FLRA governing board.
She previously was vice chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board and general counsel and a member of the internal personnel appeals board of the GAO. She also has been a staff attorney at the GSA and an assistant general counsel at the AFGE union, where she “led precedent-setting litigation and handled cases arising under the full array of laws governing federal employment,” according to a White House announcement.
The seat became vacant early last year when a Democratic member declined to seek renomination after his term expired; a nomination later was made but the nominee withdrew months later.
With two members the FLRA is continuing to issue decisions on labor-management disputes, but with a split by party, it has set aside cases that federal unions have brought seeking to reverse a number of pro-management decisions the board made with a 2-1 Republican majority during the Trump administration.
Also pending before the Senate is the nomination of the current Republican member, Colleen Duffy Kiko, for another term; and of Suzanne Elizabeth Summerlin, formerly with the NFFE union’s general counsel’s office, for the FLRA general counsel position.
With the nomination of Wagner, nominations now are pending before the Senate for all the vacant seats on central agencies overseeing federal workplace matters, including to head the OSC and for the third seat on the MSPB board.
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