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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Strike rumor
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?
8 comments:
Anonymous
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I wasn't aware of any Unionized folks at LLNL, except maybe the cafeteria workers.
At LLNL I believe that the uniformed protective force officers, fire department, as well as some of the facilities maintenance workers are union and have contracts.
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.
I am very anti-union, especially for a place like LLNL. But I have to admit that with all the downturns of the last year, the situation is getting to be one in which LLNL employees have little to lose by organizing. All the stupid, neanderthaal, mechanics of operating as a union shop would not make the daily work experience much worse than it already is. And it might prevent further loss of things that employees feel are important.
Government & Management - please pay attention. Things always go bad when you get to the "nothing-to-lose" point.
Both LLNS and LANS know all too well that they can get away with just about anything they want in their decisions on salaries & benefits for their employees. The labs scientists and support workers will never unionize and management knows this and uses it to their great advantage.
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!
8 comments:
I wasn't aware of any Unionized folks at LLNL, except maybe the cafeteria workers.
Which Unions are we talking about here ?
At LLNL I believe that the uniformed protective force officers, fire department, as well as some of the facilities maintenance workers are union and have contracts.
SPSE-UPTE
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/
I am very anti-union, especially for a place like LLNL. But I have to admit that with all the downturns of the last year, the situation is getting to be one in which LLNL employees have little to lose by organizing. All the stupid, neanderthaal, mechanics of operating as a union shop would not make the daily work experience much worse than it already is. And it might prevent further loss of things that employees feel are important.
Government & Management - please pay attention. Things always go bad when you get to the "nothing-to-lose" point.
Both LLNS and LANS know all too well that they can get away with just about anything they want in their decisions on salaries & benefits for their employees. The labs scientists and support workers will never unionize and management knows this and uses it to their great advantage.
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?
Why don't we narrow it down to "private corporations" graded and funded by the Federal Government.
Anonymous said...
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
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