Does anyone have any information on the Davis-Bacon Act problem LLNS is
facing?
I heard a rumor it could be big, bigger than the retiree lawsuit.
I heard a rumor it could be big, bigger than the retiree lawsuit.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects. It applies to “contractors and subcontractors performing on federally funded or assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or repair (including painting and decorating) of public buildings or public works”
Interestingly, it was signed into law by Herbert Hoover.
I have no idea as to the case law that would say this applies to facility construction at national laboratories, but you'd think they would have worked this one out a long time ago.
LLNL has never viewed this law as applying to regular day to day lab repair work - just major construction projects done by outside contractors. Lab salaries for workers in these areas is below prevalling local wages - cost to the program for the repaired light switch may seem high due to all the lab taxes on the job, but what the lab employee gets in not the outside wage rate. They many also be owed retroactive pay covering many years of working at the lab. Also workers covered by D-B have to be paid weekly (a big change to lab payroll systems).