Federal Employees Metal Trades Council (Union) and United States, Department of the Army, Army Infantry Center, Fort Benning, Georgia (Agency)

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58 FLRA No. 80

Before the Authority: Dale Cabaniss, Chairman, and
Carol Waller Pope and Tony Armendariz, Members.

      This matter is before the Authority on exceptions to an award of Arbitrator Horace W. Rice filed by the Union under § 7122(a) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute) and part 2425 of the Authority's Regulations. The Agency filed an opposition to the Union's exceptions.

      Under § 7122(a) of the Statute, an award is deficient if it is contrary to any law, rule, or regulation; or it is deficient on other grounds similar to those applied by Federal courts in private sector labor-management relations. Upon careful consideration of the entire record in this case, and Authority precedent, the Authority concludes that the award is not deficient on the grounds raised in the exceptions. See United States Dep't of Veterans Affairs, Medical Center, North Chicago, Ill., 52 FLRA 387, 398 (1996) (award not deficient because of bias on the part of an arbitrator where excepting party fails to demonstrate that the award was procured by improper means, that there was partiality or corruption on the part of the arbitrator, or that the arbitrator engaged in misconduct that prejudiced the rights of the party; AFGE, Local 1668, 50 FLRA 124, 126 (1995) (a