| Comment Number: | OL-10509700 |
| Received: | 3/15/2005 5:09:19 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:
NSPS might be good for certain government agencies, but it will not be good for Military Sealift Command(MSC). MSC's seagoing employees are merchant mariners and have union representitives bargaining for them on all contract negotiations. MSC already does not meet industry standards in many areas of their employee benefits. If NSPS takes over and MSC employees have no say, the Military Sealift Command underway replenishment ships will have a hard time finding employees. NSPS will probably decrease pay and leave earned by MSC civilian mariners. As stated earlier these are already below industry standards and I know NSPS will not be aware of industry standards if unions are not allowed to bargain for MSC civilian mariners. NSPS currently says all they have to do is notify the unions 30 days in advance of any changes. This leaves no room for union representation at all. NSPS can do whatever they want to Military Sealift Command employees. If MSC mariners are just told this is the way it is, except it, employees will not be happy and the MSC fleet will be no where near as productive and affective as it is now. Trust me, you need to keep employees operating expensive ships, on long deployments, happy. If you don't I'm sure the money you could have spent on the employees will now be spent fixing things unhappy employees are not keeping in good operating condition. Also, if the employees are not happy you will have a greater turnover of employees. Forcing you to hire and train new employees, also wasting more money that could have been spent on current employees.