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 Portrait Artist: Everett R. Kinstler
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Tenure: February 10, 1976 to January 20, 1977
From Georgia; Georgia Military College and Mercer
University; U.S. Navy in World War II in the Pacific. Machinist with Armstrong
Cork; active in International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
(IAM), represented the union at Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Center;
chaired Cape Kennedy Labor-Management Relations Council; Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Labor Management Relations; Director, FMCS.
Appointed by Gerald Ford. Used his talents for mediation to
prevent many incipient disputes and solve others, such as the longest strike
ever in the rubber industry and a potentially crippling trucking strike.
Went on to found and serve as chair of the Friends of the
Department of Labor. In 1990, mediated a settlement of the United Mine Workers
of America's protracted strike at the Pittston, VA, mine and chaired a
commission concerned with miners' health and pension issues.
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