Kelliher becomes NMB's deputy chief of staff

The National Mediation Board (NMB) has named Michael Kelliher deputy chief of staff. He will work with Chief of Staff Daniel Rainey and assume first-line supervisory responsibility for the board's mediation program.

Kelliher joined the NMB in August 2010 after developing 30 years of labor relations experience in the airline industry as a labor advocate. He previously was an adjunct professor of management in the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University. Since 2012, Kelliher has managed the NMB’s partnership with Dominican University, focusing on issues related to conflict resolution and negotiations.

An independent federal agency, the NMB governs labor-management relations for nearly 500 railroads and 100 airlines in the continental United States, Alaska Hawaii and the U.S. territories.