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Press Releases :
Metal Trades Department (AFL-CIO) Sues Coast Guard to Block Kit Ships
Appeals Court Affirms Injunction on DHS Personnel Rules Decision Upholds Right to Collective Bargaining; Slaps DHS Power Grab
Court Finds New DOD Personnel Rules Restrict Collective Bargaining, Violate Due Process; Orders Pentagon to Scrap Those Sections
Pentagon “Steamrolls” Collaborative Process UDWC Member Representatives Unable to Meet
News Archives:
- DoD Appeals Sullivan Decision--The Department of Defense has, as expected, appealed the decision of Judge Emmet Sullivan which enjoined DOD from implementing several significant sections of the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). Metal Trades Department President Ron Ault issued the following statement in reaction to DOD's appeal:
This is just one more stubborn effort by the administration to hold on to an illegal and wrong-headed personnel program. The Metal Trades Department is disappointed but not surprised that the Department of Defense has appealed Judge Sullivan's findings. It's clear from the content that the authors of NSPS believe that they are above the law. That's one of the reasons that Judge Sullivan enjoined the Pentagon from implementing significant portions of their plan. Any reasonable interpretation of Judge Sullivan's findings will support his conclusion that DOD exceeded its authority in the sections of NSPS dealing with collective bargaining and employee due process rights.
- Metal Trades Department Concludes Solidarity Pacts With CTW Unions
- Metal Trades Department Teams with Gulf Coast Employers to create the MTD Jobs Line
- Pentagon “Steamrolls” Collaborative Process
- The NSPS is Not About Security
- 'A Different View of the Recovery of New Orleans'
- NSPS: The Perfect Storm--DoD Employees: Caught in the Eye
- Bush: Ruining the American Dream--Written by Stephen Crockett (co-host of Democratic Talk Radio
- 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
- April 7, 2005--The Words of Pope John Paul II on Work, Workers, Wages and Rights GO >
- Myths & Facts, NSPS Revealed
- Your Help is Need on NSPS Right Now--An Open Letter from MTD President Ault
- Six Unions Withdraw From Pentagon Talks on Workforce Rules (By Stephen Barr, Washington Post May 17, 2005) 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)
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