| Comment Number: | EM-023084 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 5:15:29 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 15, 2005 DoD NSPS Comments , DoD NSPS Comments: Secretary Rumsfeld approached Congress in 2003 and requested that he be able to rewrite the personnel system currently inplace for DOD employees. Congress granted him the authority do make changes. They did not authorize Sec. Rumsfeld to completely destroy 5 USC chapter 71. the proposal that DOD presented to the Unions in February 2004 was a 13 page document on "How to Bust a Union". Secretary Rumsfeld was to work in cooperation with OPM and the Unions which he did not do. Congress force DOD to go back and meet with both OPM and the Unions for input into the NSPS. This was no more than a dog and pony show. Secretary Rumsfeld wants to have sole and exclusive power over the employees of DoD. No man should have this much power. We are at war in Iraq because the Iraqi people were and are treated as second class citizen's with no rights. The proposed regulation are intent on doing just that to DoD employees. We are the ones that support the war fighter and the war effort. I have worked for DoD for less than one year my father is a thirty year employee and my grandfather retired from DoD. I am proud to work for the United States Government and continue this family tradition. Through my years of growing up my father had missed many holiday's because of his commitment to the mission of Rock Island Arsenal. There is no need to take away the basic rights of American Citizens in the name of National Security. The DoD employee is National Security. Secretary Rumsfeld needs to pull this unneed and unwarrented attack on the employees of DoD. The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 has worked well for many years and should be left alone. Sincerely,