Meanwhile, the two largest unions representing Department of Homeland Security employees, the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union, want to restart meetings with DHS and Office of Personnel Management officials on plans for the new personnel system there. Like DoD, DHS expects to issue rules later this year on issues ranging from compensation to union rights, although in the case of DHS the rules would be final, since proposed rules were issued earlier this year. The two sides had been in talks overseen by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the unions contend that a package deal was close