Thomas E. Quigley Named Regional Attorney of Region 1-Boston
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Today, National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo announced the appointment of Thomas E. Quigley as the Regional Attorney of the NLRB Region 1-Boston. In his new position, Mr. Quigley will assist Regional Director Laura Sacks in the administration and enforcement of the National Labor Relations Act in parts of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Quigley was raised in Northern Virginia, and graduated in 1981 from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Arts/Theatre and an English minor. Mr. Quigley spent much of the next five years working as a stagehand at the John F. Kennedy Center and other Washington, DC-area theaters, and toured the United States and Canada with several Broadway shows as a production electrician and prop man. He received his J.D. from Catholic University School of Law in 1989 and began his career with the agency that fall, in Hartford, Connecticut, in then-Region 34. He was promoted to Supervisory Field Attorney in 2014 and has spent his entire legal career in the Hartford office.
Established in 1935, the National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency that protects employees from unfair labor practices and protects the right of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve wages, benefits and working conditions. The NLRB conducts hundreds of workplace elections and investigates thousands of unfair labor practice charges each year.