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59 FLRA No. 125
NAGE, Local R5-188 and U. S. Dept. of the Air Force, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina (Hammer, Arbitrator) 0-AR-3753 (Decided February 26, 2004)
The Arbitrator found that the grievance was arbitrable and that the Union violated the parties' agreement by refusing to reimburse the Agency for the money the Agency paid to an arbitrator in a previous grievance whose award was set aside by the Authority in 57 FLRA 847 (2002). The Authority denied the Union's exceptions noting that the Arbitrator's procedural arbitrability determinations were not deficient. The Authority also rejected the allegation that the award failed to draw its essence from the parties' agreement.