| Comment Number: | OL-10501203 |
| Received: | 2/24/2005 9:32:15 AM |
| 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:
Thank you for the opportunity to share with you my key concerns with the new National Security Personnel System being proposed. As a Department of Defense employee I fully support my agency's national security mission and effective national defense, but that said, I believe genuine collective bargaining remains consistent with achievement of these goals, and must continue to be the keystone of any labor-management relations system. An important criticism I have with the policy as presented in the Federal Register is its lack of significant detail of execution in almost every aspect of the proposal. Since 1962, when President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988 that recognized that it was in the public interest to give Federal employees the right to bargain collectively, there has been a level playing field for labor relations. I see this ending with wholesale repudiation of collective bargaining. NSPS concepts do not provide for independent third party review of decisions, nor do they ensure that employees may bargain collectively and participate through unions of their own choosing in decisions which personally affect them, their benefits and their pay.