Peter Eide Nominated as FLRA General Counsel (7/3/02)

Bulletin 02-05
July 3, 2002

Contact: Jill Crumpacker
202-482-6690, ex. 406

PETER EIDE NOMINATED AS FLRA GENERAL COUNSEL

On June 28, 2002, the President nominated Peter Eide to be General Counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority for a five-year term. Mr. Eide is currently the Director of Labor Law Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he has worked since 1990. Before joining the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Eide practiced labor and employment law with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld in Washington, D.C., and Piper and Marbury in Baltimore, Maryland. From 1983 to 1987, he was with Martin Marietta Aerospace, first as an Employee Relations Administrator and then as the Manager of Salaried and Professional Relations. From 1975 to 1983, Eide was a Field Examiner with the National Labor Relations Board. Eide is a graduate of Florida State