Jeff Wheeler- ILAB
Jeff Wheeler has worked directly for ILAB since 2009 and worked for an ILAB-funded project in 2002-04 and in cooperation with DOL on NAFTA issues from 1995-2001.
He obtained his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1989 and worked for a law firm in Chicago representing unions and for the AFL-CIO in Atlanta as a union organizer, attorney and activist. He served as senior counsel to the NLRB Board members and, during that time, obtained a grant from the Swedish government to study employee involvement through co-determination in Sweden. While in Southern Africa, he ran an ILO project with programs on "organizing unions for growth and power." Afterwards, he consulted for the UN, the ILO, NGO’s, and USAID funded projects, before joining ILAB.
His five-year old son Philip is an avid baseball fan and speaks Chinese, attending a Chinese-emersion school, with skills enhanced by his mother Bei’s artful fluency.
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Judith spent many years as a senior program analyst in OSHA’s Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs. She helped develop and improve the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), which recognize worksites where labor-management trust and cooperative action actually exist, at least in the pursuit of worker safety and health. In late 2011 she moved to OSHA’s Directorate of Construction. Judith holds a BA in English from the University of Pittsburgh. Defining moments in Judith’s DOL career include
· Reading The Autobiography of Mother Jones and Kirstin Downey’s The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
· Successfully representing a group of female African-American DOL employees who filed grievances alleging race and sex discrimination in a merit staffing action.
· Conducting a simple analysis of DOL statistical data that showed a DOL-wide glass ceiling above the GS-12 level for female and minority employees. This data was instrumental in the settlement of a subsequent group complaint of sex discrimination. In both cases, all complainants won retroactive promotions with full backpay.
· Helping a mine worker’s widow obtain desperately needed pension benefits by the simple act of sharing information - explaining how she could contact her local office of the United Mine Workers.
· And many years later, after a long period of digging in and not making waves, coming to realize once again that she could not maintain silence in the face of injustice. She took on the challenges and satisfactions of an activist Local 12 Steward in OSHA.
OSHA bargaining unit members elected Judith their Agency Vice President in March 2012.
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JABE B. JOHNSON, JR.
Johnson.jabe@dol.gov
Currently serving in an internal Auditor position where my strengths of Inspector General training/experience, Auditing, EEO, Compliance, leadership, human resource management, analytical, investigative, and administrative skills will be used to enhance the effectiveness of the organization.
Over twenty years’ experience in Auditing, EEO Compliance, Investigations, Human Resource Management, and Law Enforcement positions. Performed consistently at levels of excellence in positions of increased responsibility, nationally and internationally. Servant Leader, conscientious, self-motivated team player.
Education 2004 Masters of Science Management, Indiana Wesleyan University
2003 DOL/OFCCP Management Leadership Development Program
2001 Human Resource Managers Certificate, Purdue University
2000 Onsite Investigative Techniques, Albuquerque, NM, Dept of Labor
2000 Systemic Discrimination Finding, Detroit, MI, Dept of Labor
1997 Bachelor of Science University of New York, Albany, NY
1999 Desk Audit Training, Miami, FL, Dept of Labor
1994 DOD Inspector General’s Course Ft Belvoir,VA
1991 Master Personnel Assessor Course, Ft Harrison, IN, DOD
1990 Small Group Leader Course, Ft Ben Harrison, IN, DOD
1988 Office Administration Supervisor Course, Ft Harrison, IN, DOD
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Sarah Starrett has served as Agency Vice President for the Office of the Solicitor (“SOL”) within American Federation of Government Employees (“AFGE”) Local 12 since 2009. She joined the Department of Labor in 2008, and works in the Fair Labor Standards Act Division of SOL, providing legal advice and handling trial and appellate litigation involving the Fair Labor Standards Act, Service Contract Act, and various whistleblower statutes. She also assists in developing regulations and Department policies involving programs such as non-immigrant guest worker visa programs, employment of persons with disabilities, child labor, and others. She has also represented Local 12 in collective bargaining and ground rules negotiations with Department of Labor management.
Sarah has represented employees and labor unions in a wide variety of labor and employment litigation for over twenty-five years. Prior to joining DOL, she represented AFGE members and the union as a whole in federal courts, before the EEOC, in arbitration cases, and in contract negotiations, as an attorney for the American Federation of Government Employees. She also helped organize a multi-union coalition to protect federal employees’ collective bargaining, adverse action and appeal rights against the Bush administration efforts to dismantle the General Schedule pay system at DOD and DHS, through the discredited and since-repealed DoD National Security Personnel System (“NSPS”), and DHS “Max HR” personnel system.
Sarah also represented federal employees, as well as public-sector and private-sector labor unions both nationally and locally while in private practice, and served as a staff attorney at the United Mine Workers of America International Union. She came to Washington in 1991 as a Fellow at a legal clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she earned an LL.M. degree in Advocacy, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Southern California.
Sarah grew up in Miami, and earned her bachelor’s degree cum laude from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, MA. In her spare time she can often be found on the picket lines singing with the DC Labor Chorus.
Office: FPB- N2716
Email: starrett.sarah@dol.gov
Phone: 202.693.5566
