| Comment Number: | EM-020103 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 9:21:13 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
March 14, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: I write to express my concerns about changes to work rules in the Department of Defense (DoD). The proposed regulations, known as the National Security Personnel System (NSPS), were printed in the Federal Register on February 14, 2005. This message will be sent to both DoD and my representatives in Congress. America is at war. We are fighting for democracy abroad. But the regulations are an attack on workers? basic rights. Furthermore, NSPS will divert the attention of defense workers from the soldiers? welfare to protecting themselves from abuse on the job. I urge you to force DoD to rethink this proposal. We need work rules that preserve fairness, serve the American people, and respect the rights of Defense Department workers. NSPS as it is currently proposed succeeds at only one thing; taking freedoms away from the DoD workforce while giving more controls to the powerful and manipulative opportunists. Disallowing an entire workforce of their individual rights, most importantly collective bargaining, along with many other hard-won union rights is not only a drastic digression into the dark ages, but it smacks of being unconstitutional as well. It both frightens and distresses me to think that one hand is restructuring our entire workplace system while the other is removing our rights to do anything about it. Sincerely,