The Custodians had a meeting Thursday 12/20 where they were told that the 87 custodian head count will be reduced to 20! They were told restrooms will be cleaned only 2-3 times a week, and not much else. The contract janitors will start receiving their notices Monday, January 7. Happy holidays indeed.
We’ve all read how LANL personnel have to empty their own trash. Now we get to learn how to do that!
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Eventually what you are going to see at LLNL is that anyone under John Russo command will be outsourced no matter what LLNL ULM says. That's Bechtel's forte and it's directly relative to cost cutting in manpower, medical cost, pensions planes , wages, etc. Contract personnel will get lower wages, no benefits and no guarantees. That was and is the goal of NNSA / DOE / LLNS. The FTE's that are at LLNL "are the last" to ever be seen. Enjoy what was and hope that you last long enough to get to retirement age. You can bank that LLNS is going to do everything in their power to assure you will not get to the age where you will make the most. As you can see they are already trying to find a way to make sure the TCP-2 people can't possibly build a retirement fund that will allow them to leave at 60. These people will have to work until they are 65 or 70 to have any type of savings at all that will allow them to have a few years after leaving LLNL. Nothing in this transition has been to the employees advantage, NOTHING !!
Did they also tell you they want then to be at work at 4:00AM until 1:00PM.
We have people who can't read the sign outside the restroom door that says, WET FLOORS. They ignore the sign and then come in anyway. How stupid can one be. It seems having their restrooms cleaned is to much of an inconvenience for some. They're then tasked with having to find another restroom to use while the floors are drying. I feel really sorry for these clowns, NO MATTER who they are.
"...Contract personnel will get lower wages, no benefits and no guarantees...."
and will be delicious targets for foreign intelligence agencies. Opsec will need to increase high priced staff to watch the unhappy low paid staff, eliminating the cost savings.
Does LLNS just seem dumber than UC or is it really more dumbly run? I CANNOT THINK OF A THING LLNS DOES BETTER.
Raises? Happy employees? Communication, Concern for employee well being? Well-managed layoffs? Staff-retention?
Now let's have $250/hr technical staff doing clerical and janitorial work poorly, while charging program accounts.
"John" Russo's name is Frank.
"and will be delicious targets for foreign intelligence agencies"
I've wondered about that. If management increases turnover by threatening/firing people, something bad is bound to happen. It is a numbers game really. If 1 out of 100,000 people would leak classified documents, and you increase turnover, the security risk increases.
I hope you all vote democrat this year. The Republicans will give away the Farm to the corporations (i.e., Bechtel, et al.), and us workers will have no pensions, no jobs, no nothing.
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