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We are funded once again through a continuing resolution through March 09! Read

Back by popular demand, this is the rumor corner! Have you heard of any changes? more cuts? or even anything good?

Anonymous wants to know who/what is getting funded and who/what is getting cut. Any news?

Anonymously contributed: 401ks Down The Tubes One More Time . Can you say retirement at 72 is looking more realistic. Article in the Modesto Bee

From ABC News

Does this make sense or what??

Anonymous asked: 1) Why did you leave LLNL? 2) Why are you staying? 3) Are you better off?

What did you think? were you listening? or did you just tune out? Tell us!

Anonymously contributed: UK time online clip

An article from the Institute of Policy Study. Making the speculators pay is do-able. Read on

Anonymous said: I read this entire thing and then quit paying extra on my home. I was hoping to pay it off but I asked myself why do I want to pay off a house that I've made zero equity on in the last 18 years and in the end have paid four times what it worth while I could be taking the extra money and doing something with my life Financial markets

Anonymous said: Another pay cut for TCP-1's coming soon. Could the16% that was talked about during the transition finally to become true. After all the stock market lost $700B in one day what better way to make up those loses but on the backs of those who chose TCP-1. [September 12, 2008] The following is a letter to UC employees from Judy Boyette, Associate Vice President, Systemwide Human Resources and Benefits. Dear Colleague: The purpose of this letter is to update you regarding the restart of employer and employee contributions to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP). As you know, the University has been engaged in a multi-year process concerning the need to keep UCRP fully funded in order to ensure the plan remains able to pay retirement benefits to employees in the future, and that UC’s benefits remain competitive in the marketplace. At their July meeting, the Regents discussed a proposed funding policy for the UCRP to accomplish these objectives. This proposal, which includes res...

Contributed by 76: FY09 Allocations: Merit Allocation Administrative (400s ) 2.30% Technical (500s) 2.00% S&E's (200s) 2.11% Technical (300s) 1.54% A&S Administrative Services (Axx) 1.00%

Anonymously contributed: Does this get your attention? Meltdown in US finance system pummels stock market

Anonymously contributed: Looks who's buying America every time the stock market crashes. When all is said and done who will our bosses be and who will determine our lifestyle The Great American Yard Sale

With so many government contractors misconduct cases, why does governement still award contracts to the same contractors over and over. Here is a long list

Anyone know anything about the gun from Building 341 moving to HEAF (Building 191???) I overheard a conversation today about a big project at HEAF. Anyone know something?

Another DOE requirement: Borrowed from LANL BLOG

San Francisco Business Times article

Well, NewOnLine had this today- if someone can figure out how to link the whole article, please do. At any rate - read the document while you can DRAFT – New language highlighted in YELLOW (text in red, not highlighted) III Layoff III.1 Layoff for 200-Series Employees III.1.1 Policy This section pertains to 200-Series indefinite career employees only. It applies when a layoff is necessitated due to a lack of work or a lack of funds, which could result from such factors as, but not limited to, budget reduction, reorganization, or reduced scope of work . It does not apply to postdoctoral, term or temporary employees, who are subject to other employment and termination policies, nor does this policy apply to flexible term or key personnel. . . etc, etc

Any word on our next raise package? OK, you can stop laughing now and answer the question.

I know that since the VSOP and ISP, we lost a bunch of people in my department. The work hasn't decreased, just the number of people doing the work. Now, we've a bunch of people who are over worked, doing jobs they've never done before, with no one to ask (nor time to do so) if they are doing the job right. I smell an incident.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 Lab safety, security show improving trends By Tatjana K. Rosev September 3, 2008 Safety and security at the Laboratory is showing continued improvement. A recent report confirmed that both safety and security showed positive tendencies in the time period from July 2007 to July 2008. With worker injury performance measured in total recordable cases (TRCs) and days away, restricted or transferred (DART), the TRC rate went down by 35 percent and the DART rate decreased by 34 percent during the same time period. According to the report, which was presented at an all-manager’s meeting on August 18, the number of severe security incidents also went down. While four IMI-2 incidents were reported during fiscal year 2007, only one IMI-1 and one IMI-2 incident was reported over the past 12 months. The number of incidents reportable to the Department of Energy also decreased in the time period from August 2006 to July 2008. Dick Watkins, associate director for Environ...

Anonymously contributed: What do you think of the Ed Moses presentation about LIFE? Will we really be able to unload any old kind of nuclear waste into a vessel, send a laser in, get out electricity and be left with almost no spent fuel to dispose of and have it be economical? Why is this being pushed now, before NIF has been demonstrated? Maybe to open up a new funding stream for NIF, since it is perpetually behind schedule and overbudget? Should there be a public peer-review of this concept?