NSPS Developments:
DOD Begins Implementation of NSPS Over Congressional Objections

• Thank You letter to Washington Post reporter Steve Barr for his for reporting on the problem-plagued National Security Personnel System (NSPS).
• June 17, 2005--What to do if Rumsfeld calls you for a meeting
• June 16, 2005--‘Meet and Confer’ Officially Ends
• June 13, 2005--NSPS: A Bad Idea for Workers and a Bad Deal for Taxpayers--Pentagon Decisions Appear to Target Labor-Management Success Stories
• May 25, 2005--Shipyard Workers Rally Against New Personnel Rules
• May 23, 2005--Unions Withdraw From Talks on DoD’s New Personnel System
  • SEE PHOTOS FROM THE MAY 16TH WITHDRAW PRESS CONFERENCE GO >
  • READ THE EXIT LETTER GO>
• April 12, 2005--President Ault Testifies on the Perils of NSPS of NSPS Before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, House Committee on Government Reform
• Myths & Facts, NSPS Revealed
• Your Help is Need on NSPS Right Now--An Open Letter from MTD President Ault
• Metal Trades Department President Ron Ault and AFGE National President John Gage Produce Radio Spots Opposing NSPS
  • Ron Ault's 1 minute Radio Spot
  • John Gage's Radio Spot
• Six Unions Withdraw From Pentagon Talks on Workforce Rules (By Stephen Barr, Washington Post May 17, 2005) GO >
• MTD President Ron Ault Testifies Before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, House Committee on Government Reform on the Perils of NSPS GO >
• Audio: US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia—Hearings—The purpose of the hearing is to consider the proposed regulations jointly published by the Department of Defense and Office of Personnel Management on February 14, 2005, for the National Security Personnel System.
  Listen to the hearings GO >
• News Aritcle: Defense Moves from Listening to Meeting on Personnel System Changes Steve Barr, Washington Post, Wednesday March 16, 2005;
  Page B02 GO >
• DoD NSPS United Defense Workers Coalition Comments—We are extremely disappointed by the progress of our discussions during the last year. At times, the Coalition sensed that many of the concerns we voiced fell on deaf ears as the Agencies (Department of Defense, hereinafter DOD or the Department and Office of Personnel Management, hereinafter OPM) had a predisposition toward a human resources system that substantially mirrored the system proposed by the Department of Homeland Security. (pdf)
• ALERT:The proposed NSPS regulations have been posted on the Federal Register.The MTD urges all DOD civilian wokers and their families to file comments expressing your alarm and concern.
  To File a Comment with the Federal Register: Visit the Federal Register and follow the instructions carefully. The DOD has issued the implementing regulations you can visit: http://www.regulations.gov to view them in html format or download the pdf file. If you review the NSPS regulations you can see that they are even more restricted than those proposed for the Department of Homeland Security. View sample comments.
• Support the United DoD Workers Coalition. Visit the website www.uniteddodworkerscoalition.org to find out what you can do to help stop NSPS
• 12/21/04--Letter from Congressmen Inslee, Van Hollen and Jones Asking that Unions and Congress View the NSPS Proposal Prior to Publication (pdf format) GO >
• 12/21/04--Rebuttal Statement on DOD NSPS Spiral One Press statements GO >
• Statement by Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Response of the Bush Administration on Transparency in National Security Personnel Regulations GO >
• Letter to Kennedy Jointly Signed by OPM Director Kay Cole James and DOD Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz--Dated December 3, 2004 (pdf) GO >
• DOD Coalition Challenges Claims by Wolfowitz and James--Dated December 8, 2004 GO >
• An Open Letter from Metal Trades Department President Ron Ault Regarding NSPS GO >
• Defense Moving to New Personnel System--December 12, 2004; Page C02--Washington Post Article by Stephen Barr GO >
• Urge Your Congressional Representatives: Protect DOD Workers—Sign the Inslee-Van-Hollen Letter GO >
• Legislator says withholding Pentagon personnel plans violates laws—November 29, 2004 GO >
• NSPS Update of Meeting at Hilton Crystal City
• You Can't Make Chicken Salad Out of Chicken Manure

• Open Letter to Metal Trades Affiliate Union Members
• U.S. Senator Visits Bremerton: Murray, Unions Slam Personnel System—By Chris Barron, Sun Staff
• Union Delegation Thwarts DOD NSPS 'Love-in'—President Ault's Summary of the Session
• Protecting Washington State Civilian Defense Workers
• DOD Long Term Leasing of Ships
• OPM's 'Dear Rummy' Letter You Were Not Supposed to See—Documents reveal OPM chastizes Rumsfeld for holes in NSPS; Including plans to kill Veterans' Preference before today's veterans return!
• Iraq Prison Scandal Underscores Dangers of Over-Releance on Contractors
• April 15, 2004—NSPS Update
• Open letter to our members and bargaining unit employees
• An Important Message from the Unions at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
• The Fight to Save Collective Bargaining Rights of DOD Workers—Our National Unions steering committee is kicking off the first phase of our fight to save collective bargaining rights of DOD workers at the National Level with lobbying, coordinating, planning a legal battle in the courts when the DOD implements NSPS, using the resources of the AFL-CIO. The most important phase is at each of our local MTCs.  The local MTC program should consist of…
• Help Stamp Out the Rumsfeld Plan
• Six Good Reasons to Scrap Rumsfeld's Proposed NSPS
• Halliburton's Fraud and Mistakes Cost Pentagon $120 Million; Contractors Fail to Pay $3 Billion in Federal Taxes
• Contact Your Member of Congress, Request they Sign on and Support Rep. Chris Van Hollen's Dear Colleague Letter on NSPS
• The NSPS Fight is On— Here is a downloadable 8.5 x 11 ad that you can use in your newsletter or reproduce as a handbill and distribute to your members. ( pdf)
• Unions React to DOD NSPS--Send Letter to All Members of Congress
• Metal Trades Reacts to DOD NSPS
• Editorial--by Ron Ault, President, Metal Trades Department
• Uniion Workers Rally for Their Rights (pdf)
• Rally Leaders Vow to Fight for Navy Employees (pdf)
• Federal Unions Take Issue with New Policies (pdf)
• New Personnel Systems Upsets Shipyard Unions (pdf)

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