GROUND
RULES
GROUND RULES . . . LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS
Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service,
Plant Protection and Quarantine, Moorestown, New Jersey and National
Association of Agriculture Employees, Case No. 99 FSIP 111,
December 6, 1999 (Release No. 427).
The UNION proposed the following:
Despite the general applicability of these generic local ground
rules to all local negotiations in the Northeast Region as provided
above, each local union and management negotiating team shall
have the right to propose and negotiate additional ground rules
(i.e., provisions no expressly covered by these generic ground
rules), not to exceed six (6) in number, as well as the obligations
to negotiate with the other party those provisions in these generic
ground rules expressly reserved for subsequent local negotiations
or subsequent mutual agreement.
The AGENCY proposed that, "if unusual circumstances exist," either
party may negotiate no more than two amendments to the applicable
generic local ground rules.
ARBITRATOR Bonnie P. Castrey, in a compromise decision, ordered
that the parties may negotiate three amendments to the generic ground
rules to provide for local needs that are not already addressed.
GROUND RULES
. . . TRAVEL AND PER DIEM FOR OUTSIDE NEGOTIATORS
Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service,
Plant Protection and Quarantine, Moorestown, New Jersey and National
Association of Agriculture Employees, Case No. 99 FSIP 111,
December 6, 1999 (Release No. 427).
The UNION proposed the following:
Should management elect to have negotiators come from outside
the port where negotiations are to occur, the Union shall be entitled
to have an equivalent number of negotiators from outside the port,
each of whom shall be at full Government travel (pursuant to AD
202) and per diem, consisting of full hotel and full meals and
incidental expenses (M&IE) for the date of travel to the negotiating
site and for the first full day of negotiations. Thereafter, the
Agency shall pay the hotel portion of the per diem and one half
the M&IE portion for each outside Union negotiator.
The AGENCY proposed the following:
Should the Employer elect to have negotiators come from outside
of the Port, the Union will be entitled to have an equivalent
number of negotiators from outside the Port. The Employer will
pay the travel costs for one round trip, unless otherwise mutually
agreed (pursuant to AD 202), for such Union representatives, to
the extent they come from within the Northeast Region. The Agency
will pay lodging costs in accordance with Federal Travel Regulations.
The Union will pay all M&IE costs.
ARBITRATOR Bonnie P. Castrey ordered the following:
If the Employer elects to have negotiators from outside the Port,
the Union will be entitled to have an equal number of negotiators
from outside the Port. The Employer will pay the travel costs
pursuant to AD 202 for such Union Representatives and the lodging
costs in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations. The Union
will pay for the meals and incidental expenses of its outside
negotiators.
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