| Comment Number: | OL-10511562 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 4:05:08 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:
Subpart I, Labor-Management Relations: Continuing to have any LMR system at all is archaic and serves more to maintain a dead institution than it does to protect workers or provide safe and reasonable working conditions. Modern personnel and appeal systems have ample structure, fairness, oversight, review. Current leadership theory, training and practice—without LMR structure and overhead—adequately values employee input. American society, and certainly Federal employment, has advanced far beyond the unsafe “sweat shops” and poor working conditions to spawned unions decades ago. The fear tactics union leaders are currently using to discourage NSPS only serves to demonstrate that they are more interested in preserving an institution than in ensuring national security. Managers and workers are wasting a lot of resources negotiating trivia in the Federal sector. RECOMMENDATION: Do not concede to pressure from unions.