
    NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION (NTEU), Petitioner, v. FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY, Respondent, and United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Intervenor.
    No. 05-76783.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued and Submitted Dec. 5, 2007.
    Filed Dec. 19, 2007.
    Robert H. Shriver, III; Gregory O’Du-den, 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, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Washington, DC, for the respondent.
    Howard S. Scher; Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General; William Kanter, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC; James N. DeStefano, Associate Chief Counsel; David Goldfarb, Assistant Chief Counsel; Caroline M. Blessey, Assistant Chief Counsel, United States Customs and Border Protection, United States Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC, for the intervenor.
    Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, ROBERT E. COWEN  and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The Honorable Robert E. Cowen, Senior United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, sitting by designation.
    
   PER CURIAM:

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

PETITION DENIED.  