                    FOR PUBLICATION
  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
       FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES              
UNION (NTEU),
                      Petitioner,
              v.
                                                 No. 05-76783
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS
                                                  FLRA Nos.
AUTHORITY,
                    Respondent,                SF-CA-02-0003
                                                SF-CA-02-0060
              and                               SF-CA-03-0183
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND                          OPINION
BORDER PROTECTION, UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY,
                      Intervenor.
                                         
          On Petition for Review of an Order of the
             Federal Labor Relations Authority

                  Argued and Submitted
        December 5, 2007—San Francisco, California

                    Filed December 19, 2007

Before: Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, Robert E. Cowen* and
          Michael Daly Hawkins, Circuit Judges.

                       Per Curiam Opinion



   *The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge
for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.

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                        COUNSEL

Robert H. Shriver, III; Gregory O’Duden, General Counsel;
Elaine Kaplan, Senior Deputy General Counsel; Larry J.
Adkins, Deputy General Counsel; Julie M. Wilson, Assistant
Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union, Washington,
DC, for the petitioner.

James F. Blandford; William R. Tobey, Acting Solicitor, Fed-
eral Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, for the
respondent.

Howard S. Scher; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney Gen-
eral; William Kanter, Department of Justice, Civil Division,
Appellate Staff, Washington, DC; James N. DeStefano, Asso-
ciate Chief Counsel; David Goldfarb, Assistant Chief Coun-
sel; Caroline M. Blessey, Assistant Chief Counsel, United
States Customs and Border Protection, United States Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, for the interve-
nor.


                        OPINION

PER CURIAM:

   We deny the petition for review for the reasons given by
the D.C. Circuit in National Treasury Employees Union v.
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Federal Labor Relations Authority, 453 F.3d 506, 511-12
(D.C. Cir. 2006), whose rationale we adopt as our own.

  PETITION DENIED.
