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  This certainly is relief for federal employees, if only temporary. The union needs to present to the judge specific examples of what happens when a federal agency is given too much authority without accountability.

  The Federal Employees' Compensation Act is an example of the good intentions of the Congress being exploited. The FECA was supposed to simplify the system by allowing injured federal workers to appeal wrongful denials of compensation only through the Labor Department's appeal process. The injured workers could no longer sue through the court system.

  Instead of the FECA being fair, the Department of Labor interprets it completely in its own favor. The treatment of injured federal employees is tragically one-sided. The injured have no rights. The appeals process is a joke and federal employees are victimized in their time of need. The unions have done nothing about it.

  Federal workers had better stand their ground this time or face another major loss of their rights.

  Robert M. Posted March 6, 2006 2:31 PM
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  Tip,

  You did hear a sigh of relief. But don't rest yet, folks! A lot of NSPS is still scheduled to go into effect. Fight to the bitter end, then fight some more.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 6, 2006 12:55 PM
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  NSPS may be anti-labor and may help Rummy accomplish something. The real point is that NSPS is anti-freedom. NSPS gives total power to unelected agency appointees to do as they please regardless of congressional wishes, laws, regulations or any other democratic checks and balances. NSPS removes any check in the executive branch and cuts the executive branch free from congressional constraints. This is an un-American proposal and the courts keep knocking it down but for the wrong reasons. NSPS should be ruled unconstitutional and a grievous affront to the checks and balances in our government. Passage and implementation of NSPS would mean that political appointees can reward and hire anyone that supports their position and get rid of all those not supportive of the administration's position. Give your supporters jobs and pay raises and get rid of the opposition. Dictators simply shoot the opposition but Bush wants to just take away any incentive they may have to oppose his policies -- that seems to be very bad as it is.

  Taxpayer Posted March 2, 2006 1:21 PM
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  Your title "Judge overturns Defense labor relations reforms" is very misleading. Reform means "to improve." What is happening is degeneracy, not improvement.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 1, 2006 4:05 PM
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  I agree with DTS Casualty: Don't let your collective guard down until we can get rid of the current administration and the toadies it appointed to office.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 1, 2006 3:42 PM
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  They will tweak it enough to get it through the courts and then implement it. They're not just going to give up on this. That would be admitting they were wrong or made a mistake and we all know that that doesn't happen with these people. They were expecting to have problems because they know it's not the right thing to do. This isn't over.

  GovExec.com reader Posted March 1, 2006 10:13 AM
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  Don't get too comfortable yet. BRAC (Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney) aren't finished with us yet. Don't breathe that sigh until 2008, when they're gone.

  DTS Casualty Posted February 28, 2006 10:35 PM
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  Sounds like good news for DOD employees. Can the same judge now hear the case against the proposed "MAXHR" system at DHS?

  GovExec.com reader Posted February 28, 2006 2:53 PM
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  Good going unions....

  Keep pounding them on all issues.

  To all those individuals that thought NSPS would be good, wake up and realize that this system is illegal and will be used against you regardless of your performance or work ethics. Overall, it is a program to remove dedicated career individuals, at will, with no recourse on your part.

  Dave Posted February 28, 2006 1:31 PM
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  Did I just hear a heavy and collective sigh of relief?

  Tip Off.

  Tip Posted February 28, 2006 12:49 PM
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  Thank goodness for the check and balance of the judiciary. And I wonder if Mary Lacey, of the NSPS' marketing office, still perceives the NSPS as "elegantly" worded, a descriptor she used just days ago to describe the fatally flawed and discredited NSPS?

  Michael J. Smith Posted February 28, 2006 10:57 AM
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  Good! Now put an end to NSPS, which is also anti-labor.

  GovExec.com reader Posted February 28, 2006 5:37 AM