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administration efforts to dismantle the General Schedule pay system at DOD and DHS, through the discredited and since-repealed DoD National Security Personnel System (“NSPS”), and DHS “Max HR” personnel system.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.
BLS Stewards Phone Email Office Location
Jean Fox 202-691-7370 fox.jean_bls.gov OSMR/BSRC
Michael Jadoo 202-691-5601 jadoo.michael@bls.gov OPT/DMSP
EBSA/OWCP Stewards Phone Email Office Location
Frances Ingram 202-354-9651 ingram.frances@dol.gov S3524
George Jordan 202-218-6821 jordan.george@dol.gov C-3305
Jewel Pearson 202-354-9535 pearson.jewel.l@dol.gov N3454
Carolyn Robinson 202-354-9549 robinson.carolyn.c@dol.gov C-3324
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OSEC Stewards Phone Email Office Location
Michelle Porter 202-693-4310 porter.michelle@dol.gov S5526
Loretta Alston 202-693-6804 alston.loretta@dol.gov OCFO
WHD Stewards Phone Email Office Location
Kristian Berhost 703-235-2606
Darlene Lee 202-693-0854 lee.darlene@dol.gov N3416
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SOL Stewards Phone Email Office Location
Cheryl Blair Kijewski 202-693-9327
Vickie McNair 202-693-5423 mcnair.vickie@dol.gov N2407
James Morlath morlath.james.m@dol.gov N2700
ETA STEWARDS Phone Email Office Location
Renee Brown 718-731-7700 Brown.Renee@jobcorps.org
Dr. Jerry Bolling 202-693-3452 Bolling.Jerry.A@dol.gov N4438
Bernard Foster 202-693-2781 Foster.Bernard@dol.gov N4711
Tonia Harley 202-693-3073 Harley.Tonia.L@dol.gov NN4462