 The FLRA was adopted after President Jimmy Carter sought legislation to bring comprehensive reform to civil service system and regularize federal labor relations.The Statute consolidated the functions of the Federal Labor Relations Council and the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Relations into a newly established Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), charged with overseeing elections and protecting federal government employees' organizing and bargaining rights.. One commentator suggested that the legislative negotiations that resulted in the FSLMRS "so muddied the content and intent of the new agency that no one knew what it was supposed to do or how it was supposed to do it.