LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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Nuth'in gonna change. Learn to live with it or leave it. Those are your only choices.
At the new SF 49er stadium the NFL ordered drug testing for one of the union companies because an employee posted a questionable photo on Facebook holding a beer can at the new stadium during construction.
The company had ~70 employees on site.
Six employees failed the alcohol/drug tests and 30 walked off the site refusing to test.
This is a modern union. I see this as a form of welfare that most unions live off the government.
WHy not an open letter to Jerry Brown. He is a union hack. He accepted 80 million in campaign money from unions and now it is payback time for Jerry to give them some nice work and pensions with that new tax increase.
Only California and New York have unions out of control. A majority of states are Right to WOrk where an employee is not forced to be in a union nor pay dues.
What is wrong with an individual choosing to join or not join a union?
Let's make California a Right to Work state.
Then if you choose to join a union, fine but if you do not want to be a drone then you do not have to.
On topic, the blunder of privatizing the labs is well known and often described in the blog.
If the clock can be turned back, disbanding LANS and LLNS, returning lab management directly to UC, with NNSA and congress staff committing virtual hari kari, it would save taxpayers about $300M per year to operate LLNL and LANL and productivity would double, after employees stopped cheering.
February 15, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Yep, real likely. Time to put down the crack pipe.
Like a union guy hating the Lab that provided a living.....hmmmmbite the hand that feeds you...typical union mentality.
If you feel that Chu ignored the labs, remember that Obama chose him for the office. Do you really expect a sea change with the next DOE secretary?