I heard a rumor earlier this week that one of the unions and LLNS are at a stalemate on contract talks. The union is about to go on strike, and operations may be cut back at LLNL. Anyone have any details or knowledge of the issues?
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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Which Unions are we talking about here ?
Society of Professionals, Scientists, and Engineers – University of Professional & Technical Employees Local 11, CWA Local 9119, AFL-CIO.
SPSE-UPTE was founded in 1973 by a group of LLNL Scientists and Engineers in response to the many negative management policies of the 1970′s. Initially the founders were brought together by concern over a series of layoffs which seemed to be arbitrary, unfair, and contrary to the best interests of the Laboratory.
In October of 2008, the Skilled Trades were the first to vote for SPSE-UPTE representation. They elected a bargaining committee and negotiated an enforceable contract with Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC.
http://www.upte.org/local/spse/
Government & Management - please pay attention. Things always go bad when you get to the "nothing-to-lose" point.
No one at the labs is sitting across the table from management when it comes time to divvy up the economic pie. Management gets total control in decisions about compensation and salaries. Any wonder, then, that most employee salaries have stagnated over the last few years while lab managers have seen their salaries go much higher under the LLCs?
At least while UC directly ran the labs there was some sense of decency about being too piggish on the upper end of things. Not any more. Why do you think one of the very first actions the LLCs made once they took over was to immediately make all lab salaries "proprietary corporate information" and hide them from their employees and the public? They've got a lot to hide, that's why!
Name any private corporation in the country that makes its employees' salaries public?
January 2, 2014 at 12:11 PM
Everyone salary should be known. You can then tell who their boys and girls are and whose got their nose buried up someone’s auss