16:0650(96)NG - NAGE Local R7-23 and Air Force, Scott AFB, IL -- 1984 FLRAdec NG

 16 FLRA No. 96
 
 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
 GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES,
 LOCAL R7-23
 Union
 
 and
 
 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE,
 SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS
 Agency
 
                                            Case No. O-NG-663
 
                 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 presents issues
 concerning the negotiability of the Union proposal which is set forth in
 the Appendix to this Decision.  Upon careful consideration of the entire
 record, including the parties' contentions, the Authority makes the
 following determinations.
 
    The Union represents six bargaining units at the Agency.  Five of the
 units, all of which are composed of appropriated fund employees, are
 covered by one collective bargaining agreement while the remaining unit,
 composed of nonappropriated fund (NAF) employees, is covered by a
 separate collective bargaining agreement.  The proposal here in dispute,
 which would be included in the contract covering the NAF unit would,
 inter alia, grant an Agency employee who is a member of an appropriated
 fund unit official time to represent employees who are included in the
 NAF unit.  Thus, the question presented is whether, pursuant to section
 7131(d) of the Statute, /1/ official time for Agency employees who are
 Union representatives is within the duty to bargain when the employees
 for whom the official time is sought are not members of the bargaining
 unit covered by the contract involved and in which the representational
 activity is being performed.
 
    The Authority has held that an agency's obligation to bargain in good
 faith concerning the conditions of employment of its employees extends
 only to the conditions of employment of those employees in an