| Comment Number: | OL-10504237 |
| Received: | 3/8/2005 7:16:28 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:
This system has never been tried for the wage grade workers as it was for the GS employees under demonstration programs. Instead, it is being forced on bargaining unit employees with little consultation with the unions or the union workforce. These tactics amount to little more than union busting by the federal government. NSPS removes one of civil services strongest assets, an open pay system. The open pay system has removed much of the secrecy found in private industry and has made for a very open work envirnoment where problems and ideas are discussed frequently. Under NSPS people will be less likely to share their innovations in a public forum so they can benefit from them privately under NSPS. This ruins the synergy that the DoD has finally developed after years of investment in Quality Programs. To jeopardize everything that has been gained up to this point, and waste the money that has been invested, to become like so many other struggling industries doesn't make sense. Private industry is outsourcing the great majority of manufacturing, technology, and customer service jobs overseas. If all of these pay and benefit systems that NSPS was modeled after were so good for the workers we would still have jobs in America. This is not the time or place to be changing a proven labor system like the one that has served civil service so well, for so long. My position is no to NSPS and no to government union busting. I did not include my name because I feel that my comments against NSPS will be held against me if and when NSPS is implemented.