| Comment Number: | OL-10510073 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 2:09:09 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 a Department of Defense Teacher in the Pacific Dodds School, Okinawa, Japan. I wrote to Senator Reid in January about my concerns about the new NSPS system since teachers would loose rights to file unfair labor practices and have no access to arbitration using the Federal Labor Relations Board. In other words the NSPS denies teachers in Dodds overseas bases contract rights afforded to stateside schools who have teachers in the NEA. Although we are FEA members overseas our rights to have our negotiated contract rights to arbitration should not be abridged by the Department of Defense. If the Defense Department wishes to control contractors it should not take away contract rights. Hallibruton and many contractors definitely need to hire people however I do not believe that all federal employees need to loose their arbitration rights just so halliburton and other contractors can hire and fire employees. The dodds negotiated agreement with the teachers association the FEA is the basis of a system that has proven itself to protect the contract rights of overseas teachers working on our military bases. We educate the children and our teachers are loyal Americans who deserve better than the NSPS. Without the contract rights and especially the rights to arbitration I believe the NSPS could be viewed as a Communist Model of Government. In the pretense of ease in hiring personnel the NSPS will lead to the most anti-labor union environment in the history of our nation. sincerely, Ms. Linda L. Wilhem Kubasaki High School, Okinawa, Japan