Timeline 1990-2013

Arthur F. Rosenfeld, former General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, is confirmed by the United States Senate on August 3, 2006 as the sixteenth director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He begins his tenure as Director of the FMCS under a recess appointment on January 4, 2006.

FMCS celebrates its 60th anniversary

Director Rosenfeld oversees five days of mediation in Washington, DC to end a 52-day national strike by members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers against the Boeing Company with a tentative agreement announced on October 27, 2008.

Labor attorney and mediator George H. Cohen is confirmed by the United States Senate on October 5, 2009 as the seventeenth director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He takes the oath of office and begins his FMCS service on October 8, 2009.