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B-171695 1 (1971-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadwu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 11 % eN e COMrPTROLER GENERAL OF TWE UNiTED S rATES WASHINGTOM. D.C. 49044 *.1 IT1T.695September 28, 1971 ' L ''iLNT AVAILAt$LU .r. LDun B, Bray, Jr,, Staff Director Subcounittee on Manpower and Civil Service Conmittee on Post Office end Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Bray: The General Accounting Office has inquired into the matters contained in letters from employees of the Iilitary Ocean Terminal- at Bayonne, New Jersey (,IOTBY) to Chairman Henderson and subsequently forwarded to us by you for consideration during our audit of compara- tive container stuffing costs at hOTBY, The employee's complaint in the letter of February 28, 1971, involvedja.leged discrinination for Job opportunitiesagainst himself and other former Department of the lHavy employees byrtel Department of the Amy when flavy employees and fuictions were 4ransferred to the Army lr, 1967. The complaint, therefore, had no connection with our audit of comparative container stuffing costs. The letter of :larch 30, 1971, Indicated that the Department of Defense and the Dopartment of the Army were systematically engaging i v an unwarranted reduction of civil service employees at NOTBY by contracthnq1 out for functions performed by civil service personnel at the facility. Our inquiry disclosed that an Eastern Area, ,1ilitary Traffic Management and Terminal Service (EK-iTHTS) task force study (released for official use only in February 1971), recowboendcd that MOTBY be reduced to the station of an outport activity, a ;ove that could result in 1,000 employees being declared excess to operational requirements. However, we were infonn ed that the above study tias supersedu(' by a similar study conducted on a natlonil basis by Head- quarters, UTITS, and released in ,Wlarco 1971. This later study recom- mended that a policy of continued retention of military ocean tenn- Inals be supported. Certain aspects of the reduction in the clvil service workforce at MOTBY will 'e covered in our reports to the Subcomlttue on the comparative costs of container loading as well as of the activities 7 .-L117 7/C/ <