[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 31144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-12401]


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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD


Proposed Merger of Regional Offices

AGENCY: National Labor Relations Board.

ACTION: Notice of the proposed merger of the Milwaukee Regional Office 
with the Minneapolis Regional Office and transfer of supervision over 
the Des Moines Resident Office from the Minneapolis Regional Office to 
the Kansas City Regional Office.

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SUMMARY: The National Labor Relations Board gives notice of its 
proposal to merge the Milwaukee and Minneapolis Regional Offices. 
Minneapolis would remain a Regional Office and Milwaukee would become a 
Sub-Regional Office under the supervision of the Regional Director in 
the Minneapolis Regional Office. The Milwaukee Sub-Regional Office 
would be headed by an Officer-in-Charge. The Milwaukee Sub-Regional 
Office would continue to provide a full range of services to the public 
and practitioners for the 50 counties in Wisconsin and 11 counties in 
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that it presently serves. Hearing space 
would be maintained in Milwaukee for the conduct of representation 
hearings and unfair labor practice trials.
    The main impact of the proposed merger on the public served by the 
Milwaukee office would be that the Regional Director who would decide 
whether to issue complaints or approve settlement agreements in unfair 
labor practice cases and make determinations in representation cases 
would be resident to Minneapolis, rather than Milwaukee.
    As part of the proposed merger, the supervision of the Des Moines 
Resident Office, which currently serves 88 counties in Iowa, would be 
transferred from the Minneapolis Regional Office to the Kansas City 
Regional Office. The main impact of this proposed action upon the 
public served by the Des Moines Resident Office would be that the 
Regional Director who would decide whether to issue complaint or 
approve settlement agreements in unfair labor practice cases and make 
determinations in representation cases would be resident in Kansas 
City, rather than Minneapolis.
    The proposed merger of the Minneapolis and Milwaukee Regional 
Offices and the reassignment of the Des Moines Resident Office are 
prompted by a decline in unfair labor practice and representation case 
filings in the Minneapolis and Milwaukee offices and a desire to 
equalize caseload and case management responsibilities in the three 
contiguous Regional Offices. Under the proposed merger, the Statement 
of Organization and Functions published at 53 FR 10305-10308 on March 
30, 1998, would be further amended to reflect the addition of Sub-
Region 30, the elimination of Region 30 and the transfer of the 
territory in the State of Iowa served by the Des Moines Resident Office 
from Region 18, Minneapolis, to Region 17, Kansas City.

DATES: Comment Period: July 2, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please forward comments to: Lester A. 
Heltzer, Executive Secretary, National Labor Relations Board, 1099 14th 
Street, NW., Room 11600, Washington, DC 20570-0001.
    The addresses of the Regional Offices affected by the proposed 
merger are:

National Labor Relations Board, Region 17, 8600 Farley Street, Suite 
100, Overland Park, KS 66212-4677, (913) 967-3000;
National Labor Relations Board, Region 18, 330 South Second Avenue, 
Suite 790, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2221, (612)-348-1757;
National Labor Relations Board, Region 30, 310 West Wisconsin Avenue, 
Suite 700, Milwaukee, WI 53203-2211, (414)-297-3861;
National Labor Relations Board, Des Moines Resident Office, 210 Walnut 
Street, Room 439, Des Moines, IA 50309-2103.

    Dated: Washington, DC, May 27, 2004.

    By direction of the Board:
Lester A. Heltzer,
Executive Secretary, National Labor Relations Board.
[FR Doc. 04-12401 Filed 6-1-04; 8:45 am]
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