50th Anniversary: Executive Order 10988 Historical Links

Links to historical documents

• Background documents on Federal service labor-management relations under the Executive Order program taken from the  Legislative History of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978:

• Report of the President’s Task Force on Employee-Management Relations in the Federal Service, November 30, 1961 (Goldberg Report)
• John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10988, Employee-Management Cooperation in the Federal Service, January 17, 1962
• Study Committee Report and Recommendations, which led to the Issuance of Executive Order 11491, August 1969
• Richard M. Nixon’s Executive Order 11491, Labor-Management Relations in the Federal Service, October 29, 1969
• Report and Recommendations of the Federal Labor Relations Council on the Amendment of Executive Order 11491, as amended, January 1975
• Gerald R. Ford’s Executive Order 11838, amending Executive Order 11491, February 6, 1975
• Summary of Developments to 1977 (from the report of the Federal Labor Relations Council)

• Passage and enactment of Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978:

• Message From the President of the United States Transmitting Proposal to Reform the Federal Personnel System, May 23, 1978
• Conference Report to accompany S. 2640
• Jimmy Carter’s Statement on Signing S. 2640 Into Law, October 13, 1978

• Labor-Management Cooperation Executive Orders:

• William J. Clinton’s Executive Order 12871, Labor Management Partnerships, October 1, 1993
• George W. Bush's Executive Order 13203, Revocation of Executive Order and Presidential Memorandum Concerning Labor-Management Partnerships, February 17, 2001
• Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13522, Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve the Delivery of Government Services, December 9, 2009