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NSPS Message

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 Applauds Senate Armed Services Committee for Restoration of Collective Bargaining Under NSPS

Friday, May 25, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Randy Erwin, NFFE Legislative Director

Phone: (202) 257-0948

Washington, DC – Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee released the contents of the Defense Authorization Bill for fiscal year 2008. Included in the bill was a provision to do the following:

“To repeal the existing authority of the Department of Defense to establish a new labor relations system under the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). This would guarantee the rights of DOD employees to union representation in NSPS. This provision would permit the Department to continue its effort to develop a new pay-for-performance system, if the system is implemented in a manner that is consistent with existing federal labor relations law.”

Link to the release: http://armed-services.senate.gov/press/08mark.pdf

In response to this release, National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) National President Richard N. Brown issued the following statement:

“We are very pleased to see the Senate Armed Services committee take a stand against DoD’s effort to eliminate collective bargaining.

“We don’t think that Congress ever truly intended to eliminate collective bargaining at DoD. This provision makes it clear that the Armed Services committee wants collective bargaining rights for DoD workers left intact.

“The unions have known we would need a legislative fix for NSPS, and that is what this provision does, it fixes the problem. This language probably does not address all of the issues we have with NSPS, but it does address our most pressing issue which is the ability to represent our members.

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