34:0154(34)AR - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY and INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS DISTRICT LODGE 110 -- 1990 FLRAdec AR

  34 FLRA NO. 34



                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

                              and

                 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
               MACHINISTS AND AEROSPACE WORKERS
                      DISTRICT LODGE 110

                           0-AR-1560

			    DECISION

      			January 9, 1990

     Before Chairman McKee and Members Talkin and Armendariz.

I. Statement of the Case

     This matter is before the Authority on exceptions to the
award of Arbitrator George R. Gray. The Arbitrator found that the
action of the Department of the Navy (the Agency) in suspending
the grievant for 3 days for insubordinate behavior was not
unreasonable. Accordingly, the Arbitrator denied the grievance.

     The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, District Lodge 110 (the Union) filed exceptions under
section 7122(a) of the Federal Service Labor - Management
Relations Statute (the Statute) and part 2425 of the Authority's
Rules and Regulations. The Agency did not file an opposition to
the exceptions.

     We conclude that the Union has not established that the
Arbitrator's award is contrary to law, rule, regulation, or that
it is deficient on other grounds as set forth in section 7122(a)
of the Statute. Consequently, we deny the Union's exceptions.


II. Background and Arbitrator's Award

     On July 21, 1987, the grievant was advised by the Agency
that he was to be suspended for 3 days because of three instances
of insubordination. The first two instances involved the
grievant's failure to properly return a parking decal to the
Agency's Security Office, as requested by his supervisors on May
26 and June 3. Instead the parking decal was taken from him by a
security guard on June 4. The third instance of insubordinate
behavior