Working Together for Public Service:Appendix B

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Working Together for Public Service

Appendix B
Task Force Members Biographies

Task Force Co-Chairs

JIM FLORIO was governor of New Jersey. Under his leadership, New Jersey embarked on an agenda of economic development, business creation, property tax relief, health and welfare reforms, housing, environmental and education initiatives. He previously served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly.

JERRY ABRAMSON has been mayor of Louisville, Kentucky since 1985 and is a past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. His work to make government more accessible to citizens and his formation of a variety of public-private partnerships has brought him a number of honors, including being named "Most Valuable Public Official in City Government," "Municipal Leader of the Year" and "Special Award for Outstanding Personal Leadership." Under his leadership, Louisville received the 1995 Innovations in Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Task Force Members

ARVID ANDERSON is retired as chairman of the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining, a post he held since the New York City Collective Bargaining Law was passed in 1967. He is presently an active arbitrator. He previously was associated with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission as Executive Secretary and as Commissioner for 19 years. He is a past president of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies, and the National Academy of Arbitrators.

MARTHA BIBBS currently serves as Deputy State Personnel Director for Workforce Planning & Innovation and is a key partner of Michigan's statewide quality initiatives. Bibbs served as state personnel director for the Michigan Civil Service Commission for seven years and was president of the National Association of State Personnel Executives for two years. She is also a member of the International Personnel Management Association.

AL BILIK was elected as president of the Public Employee Department of the AFL-CIO in 1988. His career in the labor movement spans some 40 years. Bilik has been associated with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) for more than 30 years in various staff positions including deputy director of District Council 37 in New York, executive director of the Cincinnati District Council, and assistant to the AFSCME president for organizing. He was president of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO labor Council for six years.

HEZEKIAH BROWN is director of labor-management programs at Cornell University, New York School of Industrial and Labor Relations; project director for the minority arbitrators training program cosponsored by Cornell, Hofstra School of Law and the American Arbitration Association; and an active labor mediator and arbitrator. He previously was chairman of the New York State Mediation Board and the State Employment Relations Board. He was a commissioner with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for 12 years.

LUCILLE CHRISTENSON is director of the Office of Human Resources within the Department of Labor and Industries in the State of Washington. This office combines traditional human resources functions with the agency's Quality Initiative staff. She previously supervised the Governor's Human Resource and Labor Relations policy staff, and managed a consulting service within the Office of Financial Management which provided management and operational assistance to state agencies. She also served as executive director of the Governor's Efficiency and Accountability Commission which used teams made up of private and public sector loaned executives to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and resource utilization in state government.

MARY HATWOOD FUTRELL is the dean of The Graduate School of Education and Human Development, associate professor in the Department of Education Leadership, and director of the Institute for Curriculum, Standards and Technology at The George Washington University. She has served as President of Education International since 1993. She previously was president of the National Education Association from 1983 to 1989.

ARTHUR HAMILTON is minority leader of the Arizona House of Representatives, having served in that capacity since 1981 and as Representative since 1973. He is a past president of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He is employed as a public affairs representative for the Salt River Project, a Phoenix-based water and electric company.

MICHAEL LIPSKY is a program officer for governance and public policy at the Ford Foundation. Previously, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Wisconsin, and Harvard University. Lipsky is the author of Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service, and co-author of Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting.

JAMES MASTRIANI is chairman of the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, currently serving his fifth term in this office. He is also a part-time professor at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. He is a member of the labor-management education committee for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and is on the national panel of labor arbitrators of AAA and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He was president of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies in 1987.

BEVERLY STEIN was elected as Multnomah County Chair (Portland, OR) in 1993, having served in the Oregon legislature since 1988. Stein presides over the 5-member Board of County Commissioners and is the chief executive of 4,000 county employees. In December 1994, Governing Magazine named Stein "Public Official of the Year." The flagship of Stein's government is the RESULTS Initiative (Reaching Excellent Service Using Leadership and Team Strategies), a labor-management cooperative effort. RESULTS is a team based initiative for increasing government productivity, employee morale, and taxpayer confidence. She serves on the national board of the Alliance for Redesigning Government.

KENNETH YOUNG is retired as executive assistant to the president of the AFL-CIO, having served in that capacity since 1980. He previously was director of AFL-CIO's legislative department. He has worked as an organizer, an editor, a researcher and a labor educator in a career in the labor movement that spans 40 years.

KENT WONG is director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. He teaches labor and ethnic studies at UCLA. He previously worked for six years as staff attorney for the Service Employees International Union representing Los Angeles County employees.

Executive Director

Jonathan Brock is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public Affairs, and chair of the Cascade Center for Public Service, at the University of Washington in Seattle. He serves frequently as a neutral in labor-management relations and other conflicts. He is author of Managing People in Public Agencies and Bargaining Beyond Impasse. He has served as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, and as Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health

Designated Federal Official

Chuck Richards is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Programs at the U.S. Department of Labor. He worked in the labor movement for 26 years; sixteen with the American Federation of Teachers as a National Representative, Organizing Director and Assistant to the President. He then spent 10 years as Director of Field Activities at the Public Employee Department, AFL-CIO, where he developed a strong interest in labor/management cooperation. For the year immediately preceding his appointment at the Department of Labor, he was an assistant campaign manager and was the National Labor Coordinator for the Clinton/Gore campaign.