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57 FLRA No. 39
U. S. Dept. of the Air Force 82nd Training Wing, 361st Training Squadron Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, District Lodge 12 AFL-CIO, Case No. WA-RP-00092 (Decided May 17, 2001)
This case concerned an application for review of the Regional Director's (RD's) decision finding that a proposed unit of Agency employees is appropriate under § 7112(a) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. The Agency filed the application for review under § 2422.31(a) of the Authority's Regulations on the grounds that: (1) the Regional Director improperly applied the statutory criteria of § 7112(a) of the Statute in determining the appropriateness of the proposed unit; (2) the Regional Director erred by failing to exclude an employee classified as a Supervisory Instructional Systems Specialist from the unit on the grounds that the employee is a supervisor; and (3) the Regional Director erred by failing to exclude an employee classified as a Supervisory Training Instructor from the unit. The Union did not file an opposition to the Agency's application.
The Authority denied the Agency's application for review. The Authority found that the Regional Director properly applied the criteria contained in § 7112(a) to find that the proposed unit was appropriate. The Authority also found that the Regional Director appropriately found that the employee classified as a Supervisory Instructional Systems Specialist was a supervisor, as that term is defined in the Statute. Lastly, the Authority found that the Regional Director did not err in finding that the employee classified as a Supervisory Training Instructor was not a supervisor, as that term is defined in the Statute.