Hunt & Rodriguez Named Deputies to Assistant General Counsel in NLRB Division of Operations-Management

Washington, D.C. – National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. announced that Emily Hunt and Miguel Rodriguez have been appointed to serve as Deputies to Assistant General Counsels in the Division of Operations-Management of the Office of General Counsel.
Ms. Hunt and Mr. Rodriguez bring to their new roles a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field where they were responsible for investigating charges, overseeing representation elections, and managing regional compliance programs. In their new positions, they will assist the General Counsel in managing the 26 Regional Offices of the NLRB and provide programmatic support for the national enforcement and administration of the National Labor Relations Act.
Raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ms. Hunt received her B.A. in English from Earlham College in 1979 and a Masters of Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 1988. After completing graduate studies, she joined the NLRB as a Field Examiner in Region 5. She then served as a Compliance Officer from 2004-2011. Most recently, Ms. Hunt served as Supervisory Field Examiner for Region 5. Prior to joining the Agency, she worked as a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati where she represented wrongfully discharged employees before the unemployment benefit commission and supported employment-at-will litigation.
Miguel Rodriguez is a native of Somerton, Arizona. He received his B.S. in Justice Studies and Masters of Public Administration from Arizona State University in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Mr. Rodriguez began his career as a case manager for Child Protective Services in Arizona from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Rodriguez joined the NLRB’s Region 28 Office as a Field Examiner in 2003 and was promoted to Compliance Officer in 2008. In 2014, he began his previous position as a Supervisory Field Examiner.
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.