Rynek pracy · 2.06.2004

Proposed Merger of Regional Offices

The National Labor Relations Board gives notice of its proposal to merge the Milwaukee and Minneapolis Regional Offices. Minneapolis would remain a Regional Office and Milwaukee would become a Sub-Regional Office under the supervision of the Regional Director in the Minneapolis Regional Office. The Milwaukee Sub-Regional Office would be headed by an Officer-in-Charge. The Milwaukee Sub-Regional Office would continue to provide a full range of services to the public and practitioners for the 50 counties in Wisconsin and 11 counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that it presently serves. Hearing space would be maintained in Milwaukee for the conduct of representation hearings and unfair labor practice trials. The main impact of the proposed merger on the public served by the Milwaukee office would be that the Regional Director who would decide whether to issue complaints or approve settlement agreements in unfair labor practice cases and make determinations in representation cases would be resident to Minneapolis, rather than Milwaukee. As part of the proposed merger, the supervision of the Des Moines Resident Office, which currently serves 88 counties in Iowa, would be transfer