By Doug Cunningham

In Washington, D.C. today there will be a march and rally to both mark the anniversary of International Human Rights Day coming up on the tenth as well as protest the National Security Personnel System. Workers and their unions say this new personnel system guts collective bargaining rights and thus violates basic human rights. National Education Association President Reg Weaver.

[Reg Weaver 1] : "When we march it's for purposes of making sure that the individuals and the labor movement - we don't allow ourselves to be having civil rights and civil liberties threatened by what's coming down the pike as it relates to the national Security Personnel System."

Weaver says if this new personnel system is allowed it will boost the power of management while harming workers rights.

[Weaver 2] : "Employees who are considered allies of supervisors - they will be eligible for unfair promotions and significant pay increases. Those are some of the kinds of the things that this particular edict - rule change for the National Security Personnel System - would put in place. And we don't think it's right, we don't think it's fair and we want people to know about it."