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Tell Your Senators - Stop Funding NSPS

The Defense Appropriations Bill has passed the House of Representatives with a provision that prohibits any money from being spent on the portions of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) that have been ruled illegal in Federal District Court.  This bill is now being considered by the Senate.  Committee hearings are scheduled for the week of July 19, and the full Senate may take up the bill as early as the week of July 24. Your help is needed to keep taxpayer dollars from being spent on the illegal portion of NSPS.

NSPS has been nothing more than a guise by the Bush administration to attack working families.  Federal employees should not be treated as enemy combatants.
 
Make no mistake, the ultimate goal in the administration's war on working families is to strip all workers, both in the public and private sector, of their rights to unite and have a voice in the workplace.  Please send a message to your Senators telling them to pull the plug on the illegal parts of NSPS.

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: Stop Funding Illegal Parts of the National Security Personnel System

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

As you are aware, the Department of Defense (DoD) has published in final form their proposal for the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). DoD has exceeded their congressional authorization by assaulting the collective bargaining and appeal rights of their employees. This position has been upheld in Federal District Court.

The House of Representatives has passed the Defense Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 2007 that includes a provision prohibiting DoD from spending any more money on the parts of NSPS dealing with collective bargaining and employee appeal rights. This provision does not deny funding for all of NSPS.

I support the "war on terrorism." Please do not use the threat of terrorism as an excuse to declare war on working families. Federal employees are not enemy combatants. Please support the prohibition of taxpayer dollars to implement the collective bargaining and employee appeal rights portions of NSPS.

Thank you for your help protecting working families.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
July 13, 2006


Background Information

Congress authorized the Department of Defense (DoD) to experiment with a new personnel classification system called the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) to replace the Civil Service System.  However, DoD has exceeded its statutory authority and used the congressional mandate to end-run long established collective bargaining and appeal rights. Under NSPS, DoD will wipe out some existing collective bargaining language and other language can be wiped out through an “issuance.”  Want to appeal? NSPS creates the National Security Labor Relations Board, which is appointed solely by the Secretary of Defense.

A Federal District Court decision in February, 2006 agreed that the NSPS exceeded statutory authority - the collective bargaining section wasn't really collective bargaining and the employee appeals part of NSPS wasn't fair.



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