| Comment Number: | OL-10502441 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 8:21:05 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:
I am writing to ask you to intervene in the implementation of the National Security Personnel System in the Department of Defense. This message will be sent to DOD and my elected representatives in Congress. I have been an employee of US Army Corps of Engineers for many years and have been a loyal and conscientious worker throughout my career. As a Lock and Dam Operator on the Ohio River I have endured budget cuts, facility closings and decreased maintenance at the projects over the past 11 years, and finally a Reduction in Force in 2004. I am expected to perform duties with equipment that is obsolete and in poor repair. When we try to do our jobs by enacting the policies dictated by management, they refuse to back us up and tell us we must “work with them”. Morale in what is left of the Pittsburgh District is at an all time low. And now President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld are trying to change the way DOD workers are paid, evaluated, promoted, fired, scheduled and treated-all in the name of Homeland Security, and I sincerely believe, in their best interest-not in the interest of the United States. I understand that NSPS has already been passed, but with restrictions and requirements that the hard-earned rights of the federal workers not be infringed upon. I believe that the Secretary has circumvented the law and is trying to implement a system where federal managers are influenced by favoritism rather than serving the concerns of the American people. I ask you to investigate this issue and to call upon the Department of Defense to continue to respect the rights of the federal worker. Please stop NSPS. We in Civil Works are on the front lines of the Navigation Industry and the war on terror here at home. I feel we deserve the support and respect of the current administration.