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Minneapolis Federal Mediator Named To Leadership Position
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director John Calhoun Wells today announced the appointment of Commissioner Mitchell S. Franklin of Minneapolis, Minnesota as Director of Mediation Services in the labor-management agency's Upper Midwestern Region, headquartered in Minneapolis. As one of two Directors of Mediation Services in the region, Franklin will provide supervisory and administrative support to approximately 20 federal mediators handling labor-management disputes and training in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Wisconsin. Franklin succeeds Scot L. Beckenbaugh, who became Regional Director for the Upper Midwestern Region in March, 1997. "Commissioner Franklin is an outstanding addition to this agency's field leadership team," said FMCS Director Wells. "We were fortunate to have had several exceptional candidates for this position, and selecting one among them was not an easy task." "Our labor-management customers already know Mitch as an outstanding mediator from his work in collective bargaining contract negotiations and in providing training in cooperative processes to companies, organizations and their employee unions in Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota," continued Wells. "As Director of Mediation Services, he will now be working in a different capacity with many of these same unions and employers." Franklin, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, joined FMCS in 1994. Prior to that, he had been a Business Representative for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Council 14, and was president of AFSCME, Local 668 in Minneapolis for seven years before that. FMCS was created by Congress in 1947 as an independent agency of the United States Government. Federal mediators work out of 75 field offices located around the nation, providing voluntary mediation services in collective bargaining contract disputes and training for unions and management in cooperative processes to improve labor-management relations. |
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