| Comment Number: | OL-10502764 |
| Received: | 3/2/2005 8:28:08 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:
Since DoD hires many people to support the Armed Forces overseas, many of these people work for groups who belong to labor organizations for the sole reason of collective bargaining and equality in the workforce since they have little or no contact with what is happening on the job market stateside while stationed overseas. One important example is the teacher workforce that is overseas serving dependents of the military. Their salaries are determined through collective bargaining as well as based on a formula that has been used for many years. Without the collective bargaining base they hold, it would become almost impossible to obtain many of the quality teachers that are now serving our country's military overseas. It is already difficult to staff our schools with quality instructors. If we take away the collective bargaining power of their union, teachers will decide they are better off to remain where they are stateside. Why should the children of our men in uniform be "left behind" in education just because we don't want to allow for collective bargaining? After all, don't we have a law on the books "No child left behind"? Losing quality teachers would allow military dependents to be "left behind" in education.