| Comment Number: | OL-10507885 |
| Received: | 3/14/2005 3:42:28 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 proposal should protect, as we believe Public Law 108-13 mandates, the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively over workplace decisions that affect them. It should protect all Chapter 71 bargaining rights, including the right to bargain over procedures and appropriate arrangements related to the exercise of management’s right to assign work, deploy personnel, and use technology. To require such bargaining would not prevent management from exercising its rights. Instead, it would allow agreements to be reached over such things as fair and objective methods of assigning employees to shifts and work locations. It would allow agreements to be reached over fair and objective methods of reassigning employees on short notice to new posts of duty that may be thousands of miles from home and family. It would allow agreements to be reached over training and safety issues related to the use of new technology by employees whose jobs put their lives at risk on a daily basis.