Return to Article: Unions file suit challenging Defense personnel system
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Every federal employee knows that this NSPS isn't about national security -- it's about doing away with our rights as federal employees, union representation. No one in D.C. wants us to have the rights we are entitled to like everyone else who works in an environment where they should be protected.
Our rights are being gradually whittled away. The only thing we've got left is our leave system. Where else but in the federal government can Congress just up and decide they will change all fed employees from one retirement system to another, at a whim? Health insurance isn't the best but that's because OPM won't shop around to find us the best because they're trying to hold down the cost for the government, so it will always suck. We can pay for extra but that still doesn't get it. I guess we're still better off than most in the private sector, leave-wise and perhaps insurance wise, but I'm really wondering from now on, what's next? I don't think it will be good for most of us.
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I'm surprised it took this long. Even I can see NSPS is in direct violation of federal law. Any judge who rules in favor of it is either completely brain-dead or putting the will of the administration over the rule of law. In either case, such a judge is unqualified and unworthy to wash a judge's robe, much less wear one.
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I present two brief points.
Point one: The Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or any of the other fifty (50) "principal staff assistants" could override collective bargaining agreements citing "national security grounds" without further explanation. Point two: The only hope for labor organizations to take part in the "continuing collaboration" over "implementing issuances" is if DOD complies with the Administrative Procedures Act in publishing those issuances in the Federal Register for public comment periods.
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