| Comment Number: | OL-10511147 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 2:13:35 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:
My comments apply to the proposed regulation as a whole.I am the President of the American Federation of Government Employees, Council 214, AFL-CIO. AFGE Council 214 represents, by far, the vast majority of the Air Force Material Command bargaing unit employees. This is the largest consolidated bargaining unit in DOD. AFMC is comprised of Air Force test centers, product centers, and logistics centers. We are the backbone of the Air Force. To be sure, AFMC is crucial to National Security. AFMC is a diverses and complicated command and the flexibilties in place now should not be tampered with in the name of National Security. In my role I in this command I have learned that what will work at a test center won't neccessarily work at a logistics center. One shoe won't fit all. But alas, the authors of the proposed NSPS regulation obviously have no clue of what goes on in the real world.These new regulations are a bigger threat to freedom and the American way than any foreign foe. After careful review of NSPS I have concluded that I have met the enemy and it is us. Us being DOD. What NSPS proposes is frightening. If I wasn't reading it I wouldn" believe it. It will empower OSD to over rule the laws passed by Congress, which by the way DOD is doing right now by prematurely publishing this register.NSPS takes away rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. NSPS is an oxymoron. It shamelessly strips the protections and rights of the very citizens of this great nation who toil 24-7 to insure our war fighters are supported to protect the rights and protections we hold so dearly and have worked so hard to obtain. Another issue I have in making comments on the register is that time and time again, the details of NSPS are not there. They will be provided by "Implementing Issuances" at some point in the future. What up with that? I don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling here because what is provided is a terrible attack on every thing I was raised to believe in for the working class. A rage on every page. A slap in the face.Fightin words for hell sakes. And the Meat and potatos are cloaked. Mandatory Removal Offenses, the new pay system, appeal procedure for performance ratings, premium pay, NSLRB procedures, etc., etc. have not been provided for review. DOD needs to provide all of these details. It's the right thing to do. And until they are provided, DOD is again not adhering to the laws that govern this process. Collaboration is impossible and mistrust grows. Either provide the complete register or withdraw these regulations totally. Seeing as I still have 1391 characters I can't help but to address Section 9901.914. Here we see the disconcerting arrogance in the register. DOD will over rule the Supreme Court on "Weingarten" meetings. Even more disturbing evidence that the authors of the regulation don't have a clue of what the real world is like can be found on page 7571 of the proposed register. Here we find that DOD says that they will hold Union representatives to the same standards of behavior in official meetings as any other employees. The "Flagrant misconduct" doctrine developed over the years by the FLRA and NLRB will be rejected. Give me a frickin break people. AFMC is predominantly blue collar workforce.I have been an active Union Representative for 20 plus years. There are managers and personellist out here that thrive on committing flagrant misconduct in these meetings. It's called intimidation. That is the whole purpose for the Unoins precence in these meetings. We will not be intimidated nor will we sit back and let the employees we represent take this abuse. What's good for the goose is good for the gander and if these poor picked on management officials can't take the heat then maybe somebody should hold them accountable and get them out of the kitchen. That's why they make the big bucks and it is their job. This proposed regulation should be scrapped in the real name of National Security. Scott Blanch