By Doug Cunningham

The National Treasury Employees Union is testifying before a U.S. House committee today on controversial personnel rules changes known as the Working for America Act. NTEU President Colleen Kelly says expanding these new rules government wide as the Bush administration and its allies in Congress want to do is NOT a good idea. NTEU says the plan is excessively complex, expensive to administer and fatally flawed. Significant sections of the proposed new personnel system have already been declared illegal in a lawsuit brought by government employee unions. The new personnel system guts many collective bargaining rights, according to the unions. The lawsuit was against attempts to implement the personnel system in the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense. The Bush administration wants to expand them government wide.