Last night, we were assigned a mediator for negotiations. His name is Tony Iannone.

Mr. Iannone's biography from the NMB website:
Tony joined the National Mediation Board as a Mediator in September of 2009 with 23 years of labor relations experience in the railroad industry as a labor advocate. He began his career in 1970 as a freight brakeman with the Penn Central Railroad and subsequently worked as a railroad freight and passenger conductor with Penn Central, Conrail and Amtrak. Prior to joining the NMB, he had served in elected local, general and international positions with the United Transportation Union since 1986.