Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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Anonymous said...
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I am so, so sorry that you LANL employees must go through this soul starving process again. It is imperative that you form a professional organization, a kind of employee general assembly to frame what you want outbof this process. Based on your experience in 2007, no one will protect you interest.
Protect yourself. Form an ad hoc employee general assembly now. -
10/27/2015 5:16 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Every stakeholder in the lab is represented in tne contract rebid except the employee. Ordinarily management represents employee interest, but since this management team has been rejected by the contract rebid it speaks only timidly for itself and employees.
So NNSA assure employees, as Tyler Prizbylek did in 2007 to LANL and in 2008 to me at LLNL,that it represents employee interests as well as government interests and that things will be equivalent, Tylet coined the pithy deception "substantially equivalent" total compensation, to assure us we would be unaffected. He lied.
A servant cannot serve two masters and Tyler was paid by NNSA, as the next contact officers will be.
In essense, without well prepared,active employees speaking for their intersets, LLNL and LANL were severely hurt by contract flaws tgat were known and well articulated to NNSA and to Congressman McInerney by me at the time. Individual action was not enough. Blog text was not enough. Absent effective representation, the principal stakeholder, those who actually understand and assure the science and technolgy of the nuclear weapons of the free world will be again as in 2007 AND 2008, unrepresented and abandoned.
This preventable error lead to an effective real lab budget reduction of over 10%, Excess useless regulations, a loss of employee compensation and the firing of 3000 employees between LANL and LLNL.
It was Substantially equivalent to a sad buggering, I'd say.
Senator Murkowsky was so appalled at the prospect of disaster she had PNL exempted from the process. Neither Feinstein nor Domenici had such foresight. MCINERNEY was as is his way, simply befuddled, he being the least competent scientific Ph.D that I had ever met,
You must protect yourself. Doing so well will protect the intetesrs of the key stakeholders and this will help reestablish the long-term success of the labs.
You, not Nanos, not Pryzbylek are key. Ghosts fade away... You have the job to do after the fools parade is over.
LLNL
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10/27/2015 6:30 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Review the 2006 thru 2009 contents in this blog for insights into what's coming.
Those contract disasters and their aftermaths are the main reasons this blog and its 3 predecessors logged over a million hits and it still exists 10 years later.
Thanks Scooby -
10/27/2015 6:54 PM
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The "substantially equivalent" promise from NNSA becomes null & void with a contract change over. You might expect the new contract holder to begin cutting expenses by getting rid of those benefits that are not guaranteed, like retiree medical. Severance accumulations could also be cut back further. Vacation and sick leave accumulations may, likewise, but cut back.
Not saying this will happen, but the change over will open the door to these possibilities. Since there is no one negotiating at the table for the regular employees (only for top management perks!) the likelihood of further cutbacks looms large.
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10/28/2015 3:19 PM
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Anonymous said...
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"The "substantially equivalent" promise from NNSA becomes null & void with a contract change over"
This and "cut back" already occurred beginning shortly after Oct. 1, 2007
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10/29/2015 9:23 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Missed the point. Dont trust anything NNSA says. Instead join together in an ad hoc employee group and make.a list of conditions that you, employee stakeholders want met to agree with the new contract. Otherwise you, the only folks who know the science and technology of the complex will shit all over every move the NNSA contract folks try to mske. .
Your cooperation is assumed. Instead, make it conditional on your being a properly represented stakeholder. -
10/29/2015 6:49 PM
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Anonymous said...
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If NNSA thinks they can keep highly trained, cleared scientists and that it can all be done with cheaper salaries and with smaller benefits then that is what they'll try and do. It would be foolish to think otherwise. They have limited budgets to deal with.
The best way to stop this from happening is for the employees to organize. The LLC board and top level management is organized in behalf of their executives. Whose working for you? Certainly not the LLCs.
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10/29/2015 7:20 PM
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Anonymous said...
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The NNSA and LLC management's refrain of "trust us" == More money for me, less money for you.
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11/03/2015 8:56 PM
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October 26, 2015 at 8:06 PM.
This is very well put, it was absoutly disgraceful that they did it that way. They
wrote in a bunch of new management positions and then gave it too themselves. Were was the value added to the labs? They have to do it different next time and make sure no one can play these kinds of games of corruption.
McMillan gave big promotions and bonus money to Wallace and Bishop, and he forced out everyone else that was not part of the contract bid