14:0275(50)NG - NAGE Local R-12-33 and NFFE Local 1374 and Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, CA -- 1984 FLRAdec NG

 14 FLRA No. 50
 
 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, LOCAL
 R-12-33 AND NATIONAL
 FEDERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES,
 LOCAL 1374
 Union
 
 and
 
 PACIFIC MISSILE TEST
 CENTER, POINT MUGU,
 CALIFORNIA
 Agency
 
                                          Case No. O-NG-578
 
                 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) and raises the question
 of the negotiability of the following Union proposal.
 
          Check-in and flight or boat underway time shall be hours of
       work for permanently stationed San Nicholas Island and Santa Cruz
       Island employees.
 
    Upon careful consideration of the entire record, including the
 parties' contentions, the Authority makes the following determinations.
 
    Based on the record, San Nicholas Island and Santa Cruz Island are
 offshore islands which are the official duty stations for the employees
 involved herein.  The Union claims without contradiction that employees
 are ordered to be on the Agency's premises (Pacific Missile Test Center
 and Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme) and remain at or within
 the confines of the station for the purpose of being transported to the
 offshore islands.  /1/
 
    Based on the language of the proposal and the Union's statements in
 the record, the proposal would require the Agency to shorten the duty
 period, i.e., the traveling and waiting time would be considered hours
 worked on regular workdays during normal working hours with the result
 that other assigned duties would have to be performed during fewer hours
 in the workday.  /2/ In this connection, Proposal 7 in National
 Employees Union and NTEU Cha