Richard A. Bock Named Assistant General Counsel in NLRB Division of Operations-Management

National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr., announced the appointment of career attorney Richard A. Bock as Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management of the Office of the General Counsel in Washington.
In his new position, Mr. Bock 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. Prior to his promotion, Mr. Bock served as Deputy Associate General Counsel in the Agency’s Division of Legal Counsel, which consists of its Contempt, Compliance and Special Litigation Branch, FOIA Branch, Ethics Employment and Administrative Law Branch, and lead technology counsel.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Bock is a graduate of Syracuse University and Hofstra University School of Law, where he later taught as a Special Professor of Law. He began his career at the NLRB’s Brooklyn Regional Office in 1996. He was promoted to the position of Supervisory Attorney in 2008, to Deputy Assistant General Counsel in the Division of Operations-Management in 2012, and to the position of Deputy Associate General Counsel in the Division of Legal Counsel in February 2014, where he served prior to this promotion.
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.