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Years of hard work by NFFE members and our brothers and sisters in fellow unions finally paid off this year.

On January 28^th, President Bush signed into law the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill included language which made sweeping changes to the National Security Personnel System (NSPS).

Significant victories in the bill include the restoration of collective bargaining and employee appeal rights for Defense employees. Blue-collar workers are also now exempt from the system. The law left in place the Defense Department’s authority to implement a pay-for-performance system; however, the measure would guarantee that NSPS employees get 60 percent of the annual pay raise given to most federal workers if they perform at a satisfactory level or above. Only the remaining 40 percent of the pay adjustment, which is set annually by Congress, would go toward performance pay.

While the new version of the system is still far from perfect, it is a vast improvement from the previous forms. By relentlessly working together to make our voices heard, we ensured that many of Defense workers’ rights will be maintained under this new system. This is a significant victory for Defense workers, for NFFE, and for the entire labor movement. Thank you to everyone who stepped up to the plate and helped bring about this important change.

Richard N. Brown

NFFE Adds NASA Bargaining Unit in Cape Canaveral

Friday, January 9, 2004

NFFE Adds NASA Bargaining Unit in Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, FL – For the first time in 48 years of existence, the employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Exchange unit at Kennedy Space Station will have a union. In an election held just before the holidays, employees in the bargaining unit voted better than 3-to-1 in favor of the union, granting NFFE its first bargaining unit at NASA.

The bargaining unit of 48 employees is part of the non-appropriated fund, which has many interesting implications for the employees there. Unlike the majority of federal installations, wages can be negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement, making the direct benefit to the employees clearly demonstrated by an increase in pay.

The primary organizer for NFFE-IAM during the NASA campaign was Business Representative John Griffin. Griffin will be headed back to Cape Canaveral soon to negotiate the much-anticipated contract at the NASA Exchange. "The wages have been down for years at this installation," said Griffin. "This group has had no fair and equal say in the workplace, and now that's all going to change."

"We are very happy to be representing the new NFFE-IAM members at the NASA Exchange," said NFFE-IAM President/DBR Richard Brown. "The group spoke decisively in favor of our union, and now we are going to go to bat for them."

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