ADVERSE ACTION . . . APPEAL PROCEDURE . . . ADVISORY ARBITRATION

Department of Defense, Arkansas Air National Guard, Little Rock Air Force Base, Jackson ville, Arkansas and Razorback Chapter 117, Association of Civilian Technicians, Case No. 00 FSIP 31, August 3, 2000 (Release No. 433).

The UNION proposed that "employees be permitted, without concurrence of the Employer, to use advisory arbitration as an appeal procedure for review of an adverse action."

The AGENCY proposed that "'advisory arbitration...be used if agreed to by both parties.'"

ARBITRATOR Donna M. DiTullio ordered the parties to adopt the UNION's proposal "modified to include a statement that 'the Union has sole authority to invoke advisory arbitration if that procedure is requested by a bargaining-unit employee.'"