NASA Procedural Requirements

NPR 5200.1E Effective Date: August 13, 2019 Expiration Date: August 13, 2024

Subject: Industrial Labor Relations

Responsible Office: Office of Procurement

Appendix A. Definitions

Agency Industrial Relations Officer. A NASA Headquarters employee with responsibility for oversight of NASA compliance with FAR 22. Also known as the Agency Labor Advisor (see FAR 22.001 and NFS 1822.101).

Business Agent. A paid union official who assists the local union in its business affairs, including organizing employees, negotiating contracts, and handling grievance and arbitration cases.

Center Industrial Relations Officer. A Center employee responsible for Federal contract labor matters at the Center(s) to which they are assigned.

Contractor Spokesperson. A person who represents contractor management during the bargaining process concerning economic and other items that will become part of the parties’ labor agreement.

Contingency Plan. A plan that will permit critical work operations to be maintained by qualified personnel should union personnel be absent due to strike action.

Injunction. A mandatory order by a court to perform or cease a specified activity, usually on the grounds that otherwise the complaining party will suffer irreparable injury from unlawful actions of the other party.

Labor Agreement (Collective Bargaining Agreement). A legally binding document entered into between a contractor and a union that covers the wages, hours, and other conditions of employment for the contractor’s union represented employees.

Mediator. An individual who provides assistance to management and labor in resolving disputes, usually associated with bargaining over terms of a labor agreement.

Neutral Contractor. A contractor who is not involved in a labor dispute affecting other parties.

Neutral Gate. A gate that is used by Government personnel, neutral (non-struck) contractor employees, and neutral suppliers that are not parties to a known labor dispute.

Prime Contractor. A business entity that has privity of contract with the United States under a Federal procurement. The prime contractor has overall responsibility for the contact effort and may subcontract portions of this work.

Reserve Gate. A gate that is specifically designed for use (ingress and egress from the Center) by the struck contractors’ suppliers and employees when a contractor union dispute has resulted in strike and picketing actions. The striking union will usually picket at this “reserve gate.”

Secondary Boycott. A boycott in which a party would use threats, coercion, or restraint to compel one “person” a term that includes an employer—to stop doing business with another (see sec. 8(b)(4) of the NLRB Act).

Struck. Describes a facility or other workplace where organized labor is performing or has performed a labor strike.

Tenant Contractor. A contractor of another agency located on a NASA Center.

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