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B-211954 1 (1983-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadliu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OIECISION K FILE: B-211954 MATTER OF: E DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 DATE: October 3, 1983 erican Federation of Government mployees, Local 916 1. An Air Force civilian payroll office through administrative error failed to deduct union membership dues allotments from the pay of certain employees and to remit the dues to their union. The union filed a grievance under its collective bargaining agreement with the Air Force and received a favorable arbitration award directing the Air Force to pay over all the unremitted dues. The General Accounting Office has no authority to review or comment on the merits of the award, or to interpose any objection to its payment. 2. Certain civilian employees of the Air Force received overpayments of salary or wages because union dues allotments were not withheld from their pay. The General Accounting Office will not deter- mine whether the employees are eligible to keep the overpayments, since in the circumstances presented the issue also involves questions concerning the imple- mentation of an arbitration award which should be resolved under Federal labor- management relations procedures pre- scribed by chapter 71, title 5 of the United States Code. This action is in response to a request from the Accounting and Finance Officer, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, for an advance decision concerning the propri- ety of approving a voucher in the amount of $311.49 to implement an arbitration award of membership dues to a union. A decision is also requested on the propriety of approving a second voucher in the amount of $1,781.12, as a refund of amounts previously collected from some of the civilian employees involved who received overpay- ments of salary or wages as the result of payroll under- deductions of union dues. The Air Force served the / 1; 'i 93

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