# Timeline 1990-2013 Archives - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

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- 1990 Bernard E. DeLury is appointed by President Bush as FMCS’s twelfth director. Congress enacts the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act and the Negotiated Rulemaking Act. Both are aimed at increasing the use of ADR to reduce the cost of litigation in government and improve government decision-making.The post 1990 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 1993 John Calhoun Wells is appointed by President Clinton as FMCS’s thirteenth director and launches a broad transformation initiative focusing on expanded services, improved competencies and enhanced technology. President Clinton issues Executive Order 12871 which creates the National Partnership Council and directs each Executive agency to form a partnership with its employees and their representatives to [...]The post 1993 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 1994 Director Wells appoints The Mediator Task Force on the Future of FMCS to prepare the Service for the next century. FMCS forms its own labor-management partnership council and enters into a Partnership Agreement a year later with its National Office employees’ union, the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE) Local R3-118.The post 1994 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 1995 FMCS co-sponsors the 10th International Industrial Relations Research Associations Seminar in Washington.The post 1995 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 1997 FMCS celebrates its 50th anniversary and receives Vice President's Hammer Award for "Progress in Reinventing Government." FMCS arbitration rules and policies are revised for the first time since 1979.The post 1997 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 1999 C. Richard Barnes, a career mediator, is appointed by President Clinton as FMCS’s fourteenth director and introduces a long-range vision designed to position the agency as a global disseminator of labor relations and conflict management best practices.The post 1999 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 2002 Peter J. Hurtgen, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, is appointed by President Bush as FMCS’s fifteenth director and successfully mediates a number of national labor conflicts, including the 10-day West Coast Ports closing in 2002 that cost the national economy an estimated $1 billion a day.The post 2002 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 2004 Director Hurtgen mediates an end to the 141-day Southern California grocery strike, the longest in the industry's history. To increase mediator expertise on strategic industries and bargaining issues, the agency launches a mediator training initiative and increases outreach to labor and management.The post 2004 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 2006 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.The post 2006 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- 2007 FMCS celebrates its 60th anniversaryThe post 2007 appeared first on Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.