11:0234(49)NG - AFGE Local 1900 and Army, HQ, 76th Division (Training), West Hartford, CT -- 1983 FLRAdec NG

 11 FLRA No. 49
 
 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT
 EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, LOCAL 1900
 Union
 
 and
 
 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, HEADQUARTERS,
 76th DIVISION (TRAINING), WEST
 HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
 Agency
 
                                            Case No. O-NG-76
 
                DECISION AND ORDER ON NEGOTIABILITY ISSUES
 
    The petition for review in this case comes before the Authority
 pursuant to section 7105(a)(2)(E) of the Federal Service
 Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute) and raises issues
 relating to the negotiability of ten Union proposals.  Upon careful
 consideration of the entire record, including the parties' contentions,
 the Authority makes the following determinations.
 
    The ten proposals at issue in this case were presented by the Union
 in response to the Agency's implementation of a "Military Technician
 Conversion Program." This program, instituted as a test program on the
 recommendation of Congress, lasted from March 1979 through June 1980 and
 was undertaken to ascertain whether the military reserve components,
 i.e., the National Guard and the Army and Air Force Reserve, could
 attract and retain active duty military personnel to fill vacant
 positions in the reserve components previously held by civilian
 technicians.  Six of the ten proposals herein, set forth in the
 appendix, relate solely to the now terminated test program and thus
 became moot as of July 1980.  However, as the record in this case also
 indicates that Congress, upon review of the test results, authorized the
 Agency to continue converting civilian technician positions, the
 remaining four proposals, relating to such conversions, are decided
 herein.  See American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Local
 3742 and Department of the Army, Headquarters, 98th Division (Training),
 Webster, New York