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Letter to Obama

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By scooby

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Greetings,

In light of DOE secretary Chu's recent resignation, we are urging that President Obama appoint a new Secretary of Energy who will closely examine the negative impact of privatization on Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos Labs. A copy of the letter can be viewed on our Web site:

    http://www.upte.org/spse/201302SPSEUPTELtrObama10pgs.pdf

Thanks,

Riki Gay, President
SPSE-UPTE Local 11
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Comments

Anonymous said…
In a kleptocracy, the politicians (of both parties) like having federal facilities turned over to "for-profit" private entities that can shove lucrative subcontracts to their cronies and supply their campaign chests with wads of cash.

Nuth'in gonna change. Learn to live with it or leave it. Those are your only choices.
2/13/2013 5:45 PM
Anonymous said…
So I have a modern day union story.

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.
2/14/2013 8:32 AM
Anonymous said…
Wait until you pay for a ticket at the new stadium....union wages have driven the cost of the stadium 30% compared if merit shops (non-union) constructed it.
2/14/2013 6:55 PM
Anonymous said…
I worked with union folks once, they were outstanding. Real pleasure.

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.
2/15/2013 7:49 PM
Anonymous said…
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...

February 15, 2013 at 7:49 PM

Yep, real likely. Time to put down the crack pipe.
2/15/2013 8:59 PM
Anonymous said…
Union guy smoking crack...hmmm that rings a little true.

Like a union guy hating the Lab that provided a living.....hmmmmbite the hand that feeds you...typical union mentality.
2/16/2013 9:21 AM
Anonymous said…
Somehow I don't think that letter will make it to the in basket on the president's desk.

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?
2/16/2013 10:57 AM
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