Beth Tursell to Lead Division of Operations-Management

Washington, D.C. – National Labor Relations General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. announced the appointment of Beth Tursell to Associate to the General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management of the Office of the General Counsel in Washington D.C. Ms. Tursell will replace Anne Purcell who recently retired from the Agency.
In her new role, Beth Tursell will act as a senior advisor to the General Counsel and oversee the operations and management of the Agency’s 26 Regional Offices. Prior to her promotion, Ms. Tursell served as Deputy to the Associate General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management.
In 1978, Ms. Tursell began working for the NLRB as a cooperative student intern in the Detroit Regional Office. She later joined the Agency’s Baltimore Regional Office as a field examiner and was promoted in 1996 to Compliance Officer. In 2004, she joined the Division of Operations-Management when she was named Deputy to the Assistant General Counsel, and was promoted once again within that Division to Assistant to the General Counsel in 2011.  In 2015, she was promoted to Deputy to the Associate General Counsel.
A native of Warren, MI, Ms. Tursell received a B.A. degree in business administration from Wayne State University in 1979 and a M.A. degree in Administrative Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1983.
The NLRB is an independent federal agency tasked with enforcing the National Labor Relations Act, which guarantees the right of most private sector employees to organize, to engage in group efforts to improve their wages and working conditions, to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative, to engage in collective bargaining, and to refrain from any of these activities. It acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.