| Comment Number: | OL-10511495 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 3:48:11 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:
Subject: Comments on Proposed NSPS Regulation—RIN 3206-AK76/0790-AH82 As a Federal employee of the Department of Defense, I am extremely concerned that our congress has empowered the Secretary of Defense in a manner that allows him to be a dictator under the disguise of national security. The imposition of NSPS has created a system, by which, takes the rights of employees and their unions to effectively represent labor issues. This need for flexibility has been in effect for many years without adversely impacting the Department of Defense. Unions and Federal have never impeded DOD in any efforts concerning national security. Under the restrictions of NSPS, collective bargaining has been practically taken away by allowing the Secretary of Defense to unilaterally remove portions of existing bargaining agreements. Collective bargaining has never in the history of Labor-Management relations adversely impacted this country’s national security. It is imperative that congress reflects back and reinstate a collective bargaining process, which has been effective for both labor and management. Federal employees pay structure has been in place for many years, yet congress wants to fix a wheel that has never been broken. Its time that the peoples’ congress rectify their actions by rescinding such authority and returns OUR pay back to its current form. Sincerely, Kent Salvage GS-09