| Comment Number: | OL-10501937 |
| Received: | 2/28/2005 2:19:05 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:
The NSPS legislation was pushed through as a rider on the Defense Appropriations bill. Our Congress virtually could not vote against the bill because they would have looked un-patriotic to not vote for Defense. Since the legislation passed, the administration has worked feverishly to get it passed and working. The whole system has not worked from the beginning of this process because the unions have not been heard from, and if this had been a stand alone bill it would have never passed on its own merit. The whole idea from its inception has been to crush unions in the Federal sector. Our past presidents from Lincoln to Kennedy have been in favor of trade unions, as have Martin Luther King Jr. and countless other of our country's heros throughout history. For some reason, the current administration has found an enemy (terrorists) and found a way to equate the fear of that enemy into union busting. The administration has never been able to say how diminishing unions abilities to represent people or be involved in the decision making process of a particular agency hurts our country or our way of doing our jobs to the best of our abilities. We as union people have never been involved in drafting this final legislation as promised by the administration. All I want is to involve our unions and for the administration to wake up to the fact that unions are not part of the enemy now, and we never have been. The unions of this country are a major part of what makes this country free, and we are not the enemy that this administration has tried to make us out to be. NSPS should have been repealed as soon as it was passed. This legislation has nothing to do with what this great country stands for!