Someone anonymously suggested that since there are so many negative opinions in this BLOG about LLNS, why can't ULM set them straight (rebutal) in this BLOG, anonymously?
If they don't do that, then, all we hear must be true.
ULM or the ones that read this BLOG for them, speak out!
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Do you really think if ULM were to come to this blog and tell the people of LLNL the truth even if they signed their full names anyone would believe them? The bottom line is this. There's no trust in LLNS or in what ANY representative of that organization has to say, especially from anyone in management from the top down. They've cooked their goose during the question and answer period where you'll find hundreds of untruths and repetitive answers used to guide the UC employees in a wrong direction, of which they did a very fine job of.
I've talked to know one who trust them. Each and every employee comes to work knowing today my be their last day. The general consensuses is this. It's a job that pays the bills and nothing else. No one would be taken by surprised if tomorrow one of ULM's finest were to walk up to them and say, " we're sorry but your services are no longer needed". It's expected by everyone now days and nothing LLNS can do would be found shocking. LLNS is viewed by most as bloated black widow selectively luring it's prey into its web for a merciless kill.
In reality LLNS / Bechtal should be proud of themselves. They've accomplished their mission in 1/2 the time it took to destroy the other DOE facilities they were asked to down size. Job well done boys and girls. LLNS also got what it wanted. A labor force who knows they are all "at-will" and yet will continue work hard for their money, but it's a work force which has nothing good to say about its working conditions, the management or the labs future. Put bluntly. IA (blanking )J just like any other hell hole employer outside the fence line with little or no guarantee or career opportunities. What was once great about LLNL under UC will be no more.
No one in LLNS ULM will refute what I've just posted without fear of visiting hell sometime in the future "if they have a conscience"
Please tell us more about the other DOE facilities Bechtel was asked to down size.
That's the most amazing thing I find in the current management is this total lack of a conscience. Its amazing how quickly the old guard/home grown good buddies drove this place in to the ground. The other amazing thing was this was all heading our way and did not come about just because of transition. The high overheads, the blind subsidizing of NIF, a lack of leadership training and scientific understanding were headed to the position the lab is currently in.
So....prove me wrong and speak up in regards to all the good things ULM is doing to help build a bright future at LLNL!
August 18, 2008 9:48 PM
Go to the web and do a search for Bechtal doe down sizing and you will find a lot of information including graphs that show how long it took for them to cut the people by 50% and tear down the buildings as they're about to do at LLNL. The average time it took to destroy these facilities was 24 month. So just hold on to your skivvies, we're almost there at LLNL. The good news is they're ahead of schedule and accelerating. Most of us looked into these minor details during the transition and immediately realized there was a pattern leading to a TCP-2 decision.
"Someone anonymously suggested that since there are so many negative opinions in this BLOG about LLNS, why can't ULM set them straight (rebutal) in this BLOG, anonymously?"
Realistically if you look at what been posted so far it's been very positive-- for LLNS--and that's what matters. Their job is done. For the remainder of this contract it's easy money all the way to the bank. The management fee from now on if free money and as long as they're not successful in bringing in any WFO and not having to hire good people it'll just get easier. Less people and no work translates in to an accidents free organization, lower cost and less head aches.
FR and SL the puppet master gave thier pep talk to day. they showed the same film GM showed during his speech toughting how great the lab is and all the find accomplishment that have been made this year. the only honest piece of in formation that came out of thier talk was that 1400 people where layed off this year.
August 21, 2008 7:38 PM
Wasn't it 1800 people or did they hire 400 of them back.
It is almost a year into privatization, and we have endured many changes. Regardless of the type of termination, i.e., voluntary or involuntary, we have lost 2,000 co-workers. Many of them were our family members, neighbors, and friends. Looking around our site, you find many shut down facilities fenced in or chained off amid overgrown weeds, which gives an abandoned image of a once vital institution. The way we perform our job and our daily work has changed. As increased management and oversight with LLNS surfaces, many employees have been left confused as decision-making moves to higher and higher levels of management.
Maybe it's time to stop being a target. Push back to the max.
A “Win-Win Agreement” was reached with management that gave the laid-off employees an acceptable cash settlement, plus preferential rehire rights for a year. These were the ONLY laid-off, flexible-term employees to get anything other than an unceremonious boot out the door, and they got this settlement only because they were Union represented and able to negotiate for it. Furthermore, for the career employees who were laid off from the Unit in May 2008, SPSE-UPTE is pursuing a legal challenge to their layoffs because LLNS failed to bargain these layoffs with the Union, as required by law. SPSE-UPTE cannot guarantee that we can protect your job in the next layoff. LLNS has a right to conduct layoffs. However, one thing we can guarantee: without being part of a recognized unit, you will not even have an opportunity to have a say in how the layoff is conducted. If this is OK with you, then continue to do nothing. If you have had enough, and do not favor just waiting around to find out whether or not you get escorted out the gate next time, then join SPSE-UPTE TODAY, and volunteer to help organize your co-workers into the next collective bargaining unit.
A problem with unions inc. SPSE is that they want layoffs purely based on seniority. We saw how bad that went for the skilled laborers at the Lab during the last layoff. If I was a younger worker, I would be hesitant to join SPSE unless they come up with a better plan.
Hey August 24 7:49 am
Very well said regarding SPSE-UPTE and what the union has done to help the workforce. I was glad to hear that the flex term skilled crafts that were laid off in January received a cash settlement from LLNS. Thank you SPSE-UPTE for all you do.
Now more than ever in the history of LLNL the majority of the workforce needs to have union representation.
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