Return to Article: Pentagon slows schedule for rolling out new personnel system
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I can tell you that being a classifier for 30+ years and trying to keep integrity in the classification program is impossible because of the unyielding pressure applied by military leaders to pay civil servants based on the "buddy system". The passage of a bill a couple of years ago by congress has prompted a new program that allows DoD military leaders to hire retired military without taking a hit on their retired military pay. It's unofficially known as the "HAC" (Hire a Colonel) program. Under the provisions of this unofficial program, Colonels and above strive to beat the hell out of us classifiers on a daily basis to establish GS-14s and GS-15s for their retiring military buddies. As hard as we all(classifiers) try to apply the class standards & keep integrity in the pay system, military leadership will lie, cheat, demean, threaten, black-list, ruin careers, etc; if you don't classify positions 3 & 4 times what we should be paying folks to do. Why change the pay system in DOD when favoritism clearly is in place now. NSPS is just another method to steal more. The solution: Demand integrity & accountability from military leadership in DoD. I assure you, the U.S. taxpayers wouldn't ever have a national debt & other programs i.e. national health insurance would benefit everyone. Please don't use my name for they will surely make me pay for the truth!!!
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"We need a new system it's true, our managers are paid too much and our workers not enough, but I bet that don't change." I think you are wrong - we are all over paid. Especially those that do not know the difference between don't and doesn't!
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This administration just doesn't understand or appreciate how the Federal Labor Management Statute was put together in the 1970s as a compromise between labor and management on a wide range of issues. The Engineer mentioned strikes. How often do DoD contractors in these big firms go out on strike and hurt the program? I can think of a number of times the Department scrambled to make sure a program worked because of a private sector strike. The federal sector unions and federal employees are barred by law from striking - does anyone remember the air traffic controller strike and President Reagan firing all of them?
There are a number of other issues that balance in this statute - including official time and giving all BU employees certain rights regardless of union membership. DoD wants to eliminate the right of federal sector union's to have a say in working conditions and eliminate their their representational power. At the same time DoD would like to outsource thousands of federal jobs.
The result is obvious and transferring the jurisdiction from FLRA to NLRB will give this Department more heartburn than they know. The saying that chickens do come home to roost will be appropriate when the teamsters who have the power rather than AFGE which doesn't strikes against DoD. If the government wants to be like a private firm than it has to accept the consequences of that decision.
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Federal employees and the unions that Rumsfeld are trying to take away have clearly set DoD and the administration back a few steps. The power of free speech and elected government clearly works.
Believe it, it is only because federal employees and their unions have raised such a fuss that DoD is regrouping. And trust me, they are merely regrouping and planning a new strategy at implementing a new personnel system designed to ease protections for federal employees to allow for increased flexibilities in a weak decision making process by managers.
OPM has recently sent a letter to Rumsfeld that outlines several of the errors of their ways. The letter also suggests even stronger actions that could be taken. The leaders at the top are driven by the administration's agenda and they're not the friends of working Americans.
Wake up, smell the coffee and get involved. It's the only way that your future will be protected. JOIN a UNION today. Get involved and let your elected officials know how you feel and stay informed.
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Engineer with USAF has a good point that I hadn't considered. There might be a silver lining after all! I've got a copy of the proposal and will have to look at it with that idea in mind. In the meantime, keep those cards, letters and e-mails flying.
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Thanks all you guys and gals for writing congressmen and senators and unions with letters, emails and phone calls. I feel that all of the 1+ million federal employees can and did make a difference with regards to the NSPS bologna that DOD wants in place. At the very least we slowed the process down and with a vote for Kerry maybe we can put a stop to the privatization that the current administration is pushing fastrack to make the rich even richer. Thanks and let's keep up the intense barrage of emails,letters and phone calls whenever our rights re infringed upon. Don't ever let them turn us into TEMPS.
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We need a new system it's true, our managers are paid too much and our workers not enough, but I bet that don't change.
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Well, if they're dumping the labor relations system under Title V, I guess that means we can now strike. Heheheheheheheheh!!!!!
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I've worked in a Pay Banding system for almost 4 years now and haven't seen as much in raises that I would have seen in bonuses had I been in the standard GS system - and at a lower grade.
Any new pay system means a few things to management. They are now free to hijack all award funds and distribute this among themselves. There are no longer any rules as I've been told I don't work enough free time for this unit. I could go on, and on, and on......
What is Congress thinking to continue to allow this?
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I wonder what prompted this? Are they waiting to do it after the election knowing that if they do it before, the adminsitration will lose lots of votes????
Are they finally seeing that government employees are FED UP??? Are some congressmen afraid of losing their jobs??
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SES pay for 2004 was clamped off at $144,600 -- a 1% raise over last year -- until a New Personnel System was in place that met the legislated requirements (OPM approval, meaning ful performance measures, transparency etc) at which point the base value could go to $154,700. If the bureaucrats couldn't get their act to together in time to run the new system this year -- they've known it was coming for a year of more -- will they be liable for the lost earning potential or/and will the Congress lift the cap until the new system is in place ??
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I think they should implement the new system through management first. That way management will understand just how much impact they will have in their subordinates lives.
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