Post anon please;
I encourage all of you who care about your future to express your dismay with the LLNS contract and associate thieves. Please take the time to ask your representative for immediate termination of the LLNS contract and the abolishment of NNSA. Please read recieved Transmitted Fax
The originator should contact Betsy Manson bmason@bayareanewsgroup.com.
I encourage all of you who care about your future to express your dismay with the LLNS contract and associate thieves. Please take the time to ask your representative for immediate termination of the LLNS contract and the abolishment of NNSA. Please read recieved Transmitted Fax
The originator should contact Betsy Manson bmason@bayareanewsgroup.com.
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I agree and having attended FR's meeting today, aka the "hatchet man" is most definitely appropriate. He says his family doesn't know him by that name. That's probally because his family hasn't a clue of what type of person he is, or maybe, it's a matter of birds of the same feather flock together and the nuts don't fall far from the tree.
Regardless it looks as if there will only be 45 TRR left at the LLNL shortly. He wants all of them to be TRR 100% of the time. Others who have credit cards will lose them. Can't wait to see the backlog and purchasing power of LLNL come to a halt. Heck, maybe he'll outsource the entire job to Mexico for $50.00 a day wages. Brilliant FR, You Dil-o.
His second words of wisdom were, "If I had my way there would be not trailers or buildings for the people that are being fired to go, I'd have them all gone the same day".
So there you go. The "hatchet man" has spoken. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll choke on his dinner tonight. Better yet maybe all of them will choke on the same day.
All of sudden a quote comes to mine, "Free at last, Thank God almighty, free at last." Now that's what I call a " contract termination", signed sealed and delivered.
Layoffs are going to be a constant theme at the new LLC run labs. Get use to much higher stress, stagnant wages, and crazy new policies designed to make your work more difficult to accomplish.
NNSA has managed to destroy what were once the crown jewels of America's national lab system. Congress could do something about this decline, but I wouldn't count on it. It's game over.
Who ever wrote. Job well done and hats off to you. Finally someone with a spine.
That's 2 out of 8000, where are the rest of you?
Thanks
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I would like to write about this, but until I can talk to someone, even if it is off the record, that is behind this letter, I hesitate to take it seriously. If you know anyone involved, please encourage them to contact me and assure them I will respect their privacy if need be.
Betsy
bmason@bayareanewsgroup.com
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I'd suggest those behind the fax get in touch with her.
This sort of ranting isn't helpful. Disparaging remarks about the workforce are misplaced. The workforce is the victim but you treat them as if they are the perpetrator. Standing up in a management meeting and trashing Bechtel or writing letters that suggest willful violation of the law may be dismissed as a kneejerk, emotional reaction to a plan the NNSA crafted years ago. Nobody was complaining then.
Just because the bulk of the workforce doesn't agree with you doesn't make them wrong.
I think terminating the contract with LLNS may be a bit of a stretch. After all, we had George and company (UC included)intimately involved with contract negotiations right from the beginning. I think you will find it very difficult to prove a conspiracy.
You are taking the action 'most' are afraid to, myself included. Action is needed, words are useles. we can vent/rant & rave all we wish....it's time 'to do' what we need to to protect ourselves.
My questions are this:
WHAT can we do??
Are there any off site Town Hall mtgs in effect?
I am no leader but will follow 110% in a worthwhile 'cause'....that cause is US! The hard working individuals who stand to lose EVERYTHING they have worked hard for!!
WHAT steps need to be taken to stop LLNS/NNSA??
I have no clue what to do, or even where to begin and I can safely say many of us don't. We are just 'along for the ride' screaming STOP!!! Let me off!
Big sigh here......pls, tell us who read these blogs and share the same emotions what we can do to help. Thanks!
My name is Stephanie and I cover academics and administration for the Daily Californian in Berkeley. Last week I reported on the latest batch of layoffs, and would now like to get in touch with the author of this letter or anyone else who would like to comment on the situation as they see happening.
I can be reached at smlee@dailycal.org. I understand you most likely have concerns about anonymity and I'd be willing to work with you on that.
Thanks,
Stephanie M. Lee
The Daily Californian
smlee@dailycal.org
Regardless, chances are slim the decision made at LLNL to be given away to LLNS will never be reversed, simply because we’re dealing with corporate America crooks, who did this for money; to assure their nest egg is the biggest it can be just prior to a decade or so recession / depression to come.
I’m convince by watching the entire nation plunder into a recession, gas prices going through the roof and the unemployment rate skyrocketing, these events was not a coincidence. To have all of this happen at the same time may have been triggered by a single act such as the housing market collapse or maybe even 911, but those truly in charge knew what they were doing when all of this so conveniently came together. They also knew these events would lead to an assured divide in the class structure. One class being the rich, and the other class being the poor.
In effect those in charge have taken this country back 70 to 100 years in workers rights and entitlements, for the sole purpose to assure their right to reign above the peasants, no matter if the country goes belly up or not because those with the most cash, are the winners and will remain winners, while the masses starve and struggle.
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While writing congress is commendable, this sort of response is what you should expect unless the note is written in the memo area of a large check.
No I did not write the Termination FAX but it does echo my thoughts on the matter some of which have been expressed in letters to congressmen and in public comment responses to NNSA, DOE and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Nuclear Deterrence Skills. I have no anonymity concerns and had I been given an opportunity to sign that termination request I would have done so, both as a Lab employee and as a taxpayer. I fear that as long as the author remains unidentified the genuine concerns raised in the letter will be dismissed as mere sour grapes.
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April 22, 2008 7:44 PM
What does have to do with anything. Are you saying no one should write because all they will get is a form letter. That may be true but if 7000 people write in, they do listen even if YOU get a from letter. If we all had your attitude we'd have a dictator in office. NEVER stop writing, period.......