Labor-Management Relations

PARKING

Department of the Navy, Naval Aviation Depot, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida and Local 22, IFPTE, AFL-CIO; Local 512, IBT, AFL-CIO; Local 1943, NFFE; Local 3, NAAE; Local 1, NAGI, Case No. 97 FSIP 100, October 16, 1997 (Release No. 402).

The AGENCY's proposal provided for seven "open parking" lots and a decrease in the overall number of reserved parking spaces. However, the agency would continue the shuttle bus service provided to NADEP employees from 0600 to 0730 and 1500 to 1630 hours, from the Navy Exchange facilities to the buildings served by NADEP.

The UNION's proposal provided for "open parking" in all but three of the eighteen parking lots.

The ARBITRATOR ordered the following: Number of Reserved Parking Spaces and Extent of Shuttle Bus Service

The parties shall adopt the employer's proposal dated March 5, 1997, subject to the following additions, modifications and conditions:
1. The employer shall forthwith use its best efforts to memorialize, in writing, an agreement with the commander of the NAS, as represented at the MED-ARB, for the continued and open-ended use of the grassy areas, including the GS lost and Quick Trans area, for employee parking as such privilege existed at the time of the MED-ARB (August 13, 1997).
2. The employer shall forthwith label all unidentified parking spaces under the control of the employer with the identifier of "NADEP".
3. The employer shall forthwith provide adequate signs identifying the grassy areas as available parking for NADEP employees.
4. The employer shall forthwith take the necessary measures to enforce the parking space allotments of NADEP employees and prosecute to the extent provided by applicable law, violators of the NADEP parking space allotments
5. The employer shall maintain the configuration of parking space allotments as listed on its proposal date March 5, 1997, and continue with such configuration with the exception of the five-hundred plus "open parking spaces to be gained with the opening of the Building #3 lot.
6. The employer shall not be obligated to expand the status quo shuttle bus service described in its March 5, 1997 proposal unless it fails to realize a net gain of five-hundred additional "open parking" spaces through the completion or non-completion of the Building #3 parking lot, or other adjustments made by the employer by no later than March 31, 1998.
7. In the event of the employer's failure to realize a net gain of five-hundred additional "open parking" spaces by March 31, 1998, the employer shall within thirty days thereafter, expand its shuttle bus service through use of the same or similar air-conditioned vehicles from the status quo of 0600 to 0730 and 1500 to 1630 hours (at 15-minute intervals) to include shuttle bus service to and from the Navy Exchange to the buildings served by NADEP employees at hourly intervals from 0800 to 1400 hours.
8. In order to determine whether the employer has met the "500" additional "open parking" spaces threshold, the employer shall be allowed to designate up to one representative for each union, who shall then meet and confer and make the necessary arrangements to conduct a survey of the parking lot spaces by no later than March 31, 1998 and to execute a written report of their findings.

Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Virginia-West Virginia District, Richmond, Virginia and National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 48, Case No. 97 FSIP 83, August 11, 1997 (Release No. 400).

The AGENCY proposed to canvass parking lots and negotiate the most favorable rate possible for affected employees.

The UNION proposed the following:

$15,360 for affected employees in the Midlothian and Enterprise Parkway with NTEU to identify those affected employees to whom distributions will be made, and in what amounts. This money will be allocated within 30 days from any award granted. This money is for the purpose of easing the burden of parking costs.

The PANEL ordered the parties to adopt the following:

(1) first, the employer will canvass parking lots, then the parties will jointly identify the parking facility where the employer is to conduct negotiations over the parking rate for unit employees, and finally the employer will negotiate the most favorable rate possible for affected employees; and (2) the employer shall provide a $4,320 transition subsidy ($45 times eight employees times 12 months) for the six clerks and technicians from Midlothian and the two clerks from Enterprise Parkway offices. The total sum to be paid may be reduced proportionally to reflect a lower monthly parking fee if one is successfully negotiated.

Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Rocky Mountain District, Salt Lake City Office, Salt Lake City, Utah and Chapter 17, National Treasury Employees Union, Case No. 97 FSIP 74, September 30, 1997 (Release No. 402).

The AGENCY proposed that GSA ask Zions to implement the parking rates, terms, and conditions as follow:

(1) a $5 monthly credit is to be given to each unit employee who purchases a monthly parking pass at any Zions parking garage for a 1-year period commencing September 1, 1997; (2) annual rate increases are to be capped at 5 percent, except in those years where inflation exceeds 8 percent , when it will be capped at the inflation rate; (3) Zions will guarantee 175 monthly parking passes for Eagle Gate levels 9 and 10 until October 1, 1997, and thereafter only a number for which there is a demand; and (4) in May 1998, rates are to be increased at Social Hall Plaza, Eagle Gate levels 1 through 8, and Eagle Gate levels 9 and 10 by $5, $4, and $3, respectively.

The UNION proposed that parking spaces be made available to unit employees in the numbers and at the monthly rates that follow:

Eagle Gate levels 1 through 8, 15 spaces at $45; Eagle Gate levels 9 and 10, 60 spaces at $30; and Social Hall Plaza, 90 spaces at $50 and 5 at $90.

These rates would be fixed for a 36-month period commencing on the date of the parties' parking agreement and would be subject to increases only every 24 months.

The PANEL ordered the adoption of the AGENCY's proposal.

Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, Mountain Home, Tennessee and Local 1687, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Case No. 98 FSIP 87, April 22, 1998 (Release No. 408).

The UNION proposed that the agency provide it with two reserved spaces, either in Parking Lot B or Parking Lot C.

The AGENCY offered to provide the union with any four spaces in Parking Lots A or D.

The ARBITRATOR ordered the parties to adopt the UNION's final offer.