Official: Obama to repeal 4 Bush executive orders that unions oppose

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http://www.suntimes.com/business/1405064,w-Obama-repeal-four-Bush-executive-orders-013009.article

January 30, 2009

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON---- President Barack Obama intends to overturn four Bush-era executive orders that unions opposed, officials said Thursday.

Obama planned to reverse one order Friday that allowed unionized companies to post signs informing workers that they were allowed to decertify their union, an order some claim is unfair because nonunion businesses are not required to post signs letting workers know they were legally allowed to vote for a union.

Two Democratic sources also said Obama would prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses that were intended to influence workers' decisions to form unions or engage in collective bargaining. A third order would require federal vendors with more than $100,000 in contracts to post workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act.

The final order would require service contractors at federal buildings to offer jobs to qualified current employees when contracts changed. For instance, rank-and-file workers could continue working on the same federal project even if the administrative contract expired. The officials disclosed the plans on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to pre-empt the White House's plans.

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1. We also need to repeal the "National Security" Personnel System

NSPS

Most any federal worker under this system hates NSPS as it is too subjective and is tailored to prey upon those workers who don't tow the party line. It is a system exempt of due process and bargaining rights and so is unfair.

Get rid of it.