| Comment Number: | EM-017520 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 5:19:29 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
| No Attachments |
Comments:
March 9, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: Although this is being sent along with millions my message is different from the rest. Collective bargaining is a pillar of democracy. Democracy is the very principle that our soldier boys are dying in Iraq. After we defeated Japan in WWII one of the first things our government helped the Japanese set up was labor unions and collective bargaining. Why? Unions would bring balance to the power of the powerful businesses that supported fascism in Japan. Everywhere there is real democracy unions flourish. We are going backward in the U.S. Even in the deepest, darkest days of WWII the federal government did not strip its workers of their unions and the right to bargain collectively. If Republicans want a piece of the union political action money they need only go back to the original NLRB. Proportional representation was to be the policy. There could be new elections held in in the Defense Dept. Those that wanted AFGE stay with it with full rights. Those that want the conservative, Republican, right wing Christian Labor Association could vote for it and those who were the radicals could vote for the Industrial Workers of the World. Laws could be written to limit choices to three unions in any workplace of ten or more workers. To get the unions to buy into this, Republicans could use their current political clout to repeal 14b of the Taft Hartley Act, the hot cargo provision and the secondary boycott. Suddenly the GOP could pick up millions of new money. The unions would philosophically represent their members better. Sincerely,