Liveblogging the NSPS Review Board Hearing

Before the Defense Business Board's NSPS review team began its first public meeting, American Federation Government Employees workers picketed outside the hotel where the meeting is being held. Some of their chants implied sentiments that are not reprintable on a family blog, but the mood was mostly good-natured, and the atmosphere within the hearing room is similarly calm. AFGE's packed the room, but folks are sitting and listening. And so far, the strongest statement has come from review board chairman Rudy de Leon, who said the labor-management provisions of NSPS, repealed last year, "served to greatly damage the strong sense of partnership and commitment that had existed between labor and management in previous administrations."