12:0635(125)NG - NFFE Local 1363 and Army Garrison, Yongsan, Korea -- 1983 FLRAdec NG

 12 FLRA No. 125
 
 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF
 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 1363
 Union
 
 and
 
 UNITED STATES ARMY
 GARRISON, YONGSAN, KOREA
 Agency
 
                                            Case No. O-NG-480
 
                 DECISION AND ORDER ON NEGOTIABILITY ISSUE
 
    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).  The issue presented
 to the Authority is the negotiability of the following Union proposal:
 
          Alcoholic beverages will not be dispensed to persons on duty.
 
    Upon careful consideration of the entire record, including the
 parties' contentions, the Authority makes the following determinations.
 The Union's proposal concerns the dispensation of alcoholic beverages in
 certain membership associations of nonappropriated fund
 instrumentalities (NAFIs).  The effect of the Union's proposal is to
 prohibit the dispensation of alcoholic beverages only to persons on
 duty, as opposed to prohibiting the dispensation of such beverages to
 all employees during duty hours, as provided under an Agency regulation.
  The sole contention of the Agency is that dispensation of alcoholic
 beverages in membership association NAFIs is not a condition of
 employment within the meaning of section 7103(a)(14) of the Statute, and
 therefore is outside the scope of bargaining.
 
    The duty to bargain under the Statute extends only to "conditions of
 employment," i.e., personnel policies, practices, and matters affecting
 working conditions.  /1/ In construing that statutory phrase, the
 Authority has found proposals which concern matters directly affecting
 "the work situation and employment relationship" of bargaining unit
 employees to be within the duty to bargain.  E.g., National Treasury
 Employees Union and Internal Revenue Service,