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Richard Barnes Appointed Federal Mediation Acting DirectorDeparting Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director John Calhoun Wells has appointed C. Richard Barnes to be Acting Director of the labor-management mediation and conflict resolution agency. Wells, appointed by President Clinton in November 1993, leaves FMCS this week to return to the private sector and resume his labor-management consulting business after four and a half years as the nation’s top mediator. Barnes is a career mediator, and has served as FMCS Deputy Director for Field Operations since November 1996. He was responsible for the delivery of collective bargaining contract (dispute) and preventive mediation services to the nation’s labor-management community, encompassing the work of 200 federal mediators in fifty states and the Panama Canal Zone. Prior to that, he was Regional Director for the southern United States. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee and resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Barnes joined FMCS in August 1987. Wells said, "Richard Barnes has played a key role in every step of the strategic redirection of FMCS, as we took this agency through a significant change process to better prepare it for the future. As Deputy Director and Regional Director, he has proved to be a strong leader and talented manager." Wells noted, "Richard is also a superb mediator. He has been pivotal in bringing resolution to some of the largest and most contentious labor-management disputes in decades, including the United Parcel Service/Teamsters strike, and just last month, he headed the mediation team during negotiations between Kaiser Foundations Hospitals and the California Nurses Association." Wells also announced that Vella M. Traynham, Deputy Director for National Office Operations, will assume responsibilities for Field Operations, as well. And he appointed Commissioner Frances Dunham of Iselin, New Jersey as Acting Southern Regional Director, responsible for the work of 40 mediators in 19 states, the District of Columbia and the Republic of Panama. "I have absolute confidence in the FMCS leadership team," said Wells. "These individuals in the field and National Office demonstrate a deep commitment to collective bargaining, labor-management relations and the future of this organization. I am proud to leave a strengthened, revitalized FMCS in their hands." |
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