Political Quotes

“I would like to express my unqualified support for the nomination of William Gould IV to chair the National Labor Relations Board. I am excited at the intelligence and sense of fairness that he will bring to the National Labor Relations Board, which needs new leadership to guide its mission in resolving labor-management conflict and to do its part to promote the economic well-being of all Americans. You will hear a lot about Mr. Gould and his views--he is a prolific author of many scholarly and popular press articles--but the one theme that stands out is his fundamental belief in the strengths, for both management and labor, of democracy in the workplace. He has had a career that has provided him varied vantage points from which to view the development of labor-management relations since his graduation from Cornell Law School and study at the London School of Economics in the early 1960's. He worked as assistant general counsel for the United Auto Workers, served as a staff attorney for the NLRB, and represented management at a private law firm in New York. He has served as a distinguished professor of law at Stanford University since 1972. A member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Mr. Gould has presided over 200 arbitration cases in nearly a quarter of a century. He was first admitted to the academy at the age of 33, one of the youngest members ever to join.”