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While debating which companies should or should not manage LLNL for the next contract, shouldn’t current LLNS employees and LLNS and UC/LLNL retirees unite to form a functioning working group to frame out workplace and retirement benefit criteria for our elected officials to review and consider with the NNSA? Or, just let whatever happens happen again?

  UC system to cover tuition for California residents who are Native Americans https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CROYgDf0ucw

  https://news.yahoo.com/lanl-over-1b-bump-proposed-150300706.html Putin just handed LANL a cool billion! Apr. 20—A hefty spending increase proposed for Los Alamos National Laboratory would push its budget to an unprecedented level as federal agencies forge ahead with efforts to ramp up production of nuclear bomb cores to modernize the arsenal. The Los Alamos lab's funding would jump to about $4.6 billion from this year's $3.5 billion under the U.S. Energy Department's early budget requests for the 2023 fiscal Ok a nillion is nothing in Musk money but still pretty dam good. By the way did you know Musk majored in physics in college, of course he dropped out his Ph.d in Apllied physcis in Stanford but I think he is still did ok. Kids remember to major in STEM

  Will the NNSA root out Bechtel from the next LLNL contract winner as they did with TRIAD? If so, why?

  Pentagon asks top 8 U.S. weapons makers to meet on Ukraine.  The Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight U.S. weapons manufacturers on Wednesday to discuss the industry's capacity to meet Ukraine's weapons needs....  https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/pentagon-asks-top-8-u.s.-weapons-makers-to-meet-on-ukraine-sources

  Despite Russian Warnings, Finland and Sweden Draw Closer to NATO https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/world/europe/finland-sweden-nato-russia-ukraine.html

  Appeals court sees high bar to restoring federal contractor vaccine mandate https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2022/04/appeals-court-sees-high-bar-to-restoring-federal-contractor-vaccine-mandate/

  Workers evacuated from area of Carlsbad nuclear waste repository after 'abnormal event' https://sports.yahoo.com/workers-evacuated-area-carlsbad-nuclear-040553310.html

  “There is absolutely no reason to expand pit production capacity in light of Russia’s war in Ukraine,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association. “That would suggest the United States should have a larger nuclear arsenal than we currently have, and that is a dangerous knee-jerk response.” Hmm, how does this "suggest" that? Do these people ever look into why we are making pits? My guess this Kimball is not a total idiot in which case he is just lying to make sound like we are "expanding" the arsenal. Greg Mello never seems to learn his lesson. Over and over again he goes to "labs are bad for New Mexico", besides the small number of NYC divorcees that live in Santa Fe no one in New Mexico buys this. You have families with generation after generation who have worked at the lab, had contracts with lab, or family members at the labs. Whenever he says this it just turns native New Mexicans away. These people have a lot of say with ...

The war in Ukraine has put Los Alamos National Lab’s nuclear-weapons mission in the spotlight.  https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2022/03/24/the-war-in-ukraine-has-put-los-alamos-national-labs-nuclear-weapons-mission-in-the-spotlight/

Given this years inflation rate what might our LLNS pension % COLA be this Summer?