Developers pitch ideas for 78 acres of Livermore Valley Open Campus

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/05/developers-pitch-ideas-for-livermore.html

So sad...no vision..perhaps you should get new leadership

Poor Employee Relations

Employee Relations

Why is it a sin to make life better for the rank & file employee (not the managers - they're doing fine).

Seems that basic employee relation efforts are non existent at the national lab LLCs.

Downside of having a Union at LLNS.

J-Dog said...
This is the downside of having a Union at LLNS.
If you do not like LLNS management (I do) then this is the other side of the coin.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/28/NY-Union-Workers-Fed-Up-with-Bosss-2-Hour-Work-Day

Not classified and hasn't produced a Thing

Not classified and hasn't produced a Thing

This folks is a joke. It appeared in the Modesto Bee brought over to me by a neighbor. He was laughing and after I read the article so was I. NIF needs to stay the hell out of the newspapers until the actually do something useful for the nation instead of trying to get funds by lying to the press. Things like this are going to bite them in the ass cause people that know are going to tell the truth.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/22/beam_us_up_national_ignition_facility_star_trek

LLNL, LLNS benefits compared to other DOE

LLNL, LLNS benefits compared to other DOE

This item is from the Pleasanton Weekly blog, might be of interest:

http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=&t=10508

Posted by cosmic-charlie, a resident of the Downtown neighborhood, on May 14, 2013 at 8:26 am
cosmic-charlie is a member (registered user) of PleasantonWeekly.com

Don't I know it well!

Many years ago, the career employee was know as an "FTE" or Full Time Employee. And as an FTE, I was very concerned with the retirement structure and the promises made that went along with it.

At the time, with 10 years of service, I quit, out of those concerns, and found a better deal with Stanford (SLAC).

In the Stanford system, employee contributions of 10% or more, was matched in kind up to the 1st 10%, by Stanford.

This was an income reduction tax benefit, and was in real terms, a measurable entity. It was tangible, and real. Very different from some promise.

Bottom line? With 28 years of service to SLAC, my retirement began at the earliest moment to access all of the accumulated funds without early penalties.

With the promise the Lab made, my employment would had to have continued for an additional 6 1/2 years more until age 65 in order to have an equivalent stake, had I not changed jobs.

In addition, health care is a lifetime benefit thru SLAC, just as it was promised at the Lab so many years ago. The difference is, with the Lab moving into a hybrid partnership and away from the UC system, Stanford remains a private entity and BTW, is fully funded, whereas the Lab can modify any deal they want, for any reason, to maintain the bottom line. Hence big time lawsuits we are now seeing.

I maintain promises made should be kept, especially for loyal service over the long haul. If I were near retirement at the Lab, as I would soon be if not for the job change, there would be a great deal of concern about my retirement.

Remember, Lab employees historically did not contribute to Social Security (same as Federal Employees), so all of the eggs were in one basket as it were, and seemed, to this former Lab FTE, too risky to trust in a promise.

Never looked back

Why LLNL THE TRUE STORY exist.

Why LLNL THE TRUE STORY exist.


Well...because this blog is for "real" information of LLNS that only "real" employees would pass on to employees...This is not about science, this is about grading the management of the LLNS in these present days. If there were no transition to LLNS, this blog would never be here.

LLNL was a good place to work. The transition to LLNS was the mistake of the century in every sense.

What this tells me is LLNL The True Story will go on until LLNL is no longer under a private contractor like LLNS and goes back to being a facility which offer a pension exactly like the OLD UC pension program. As long as it is an "at will" society you have seen the best years LLNL will ever be.

More defense cuts on the way

More defense cuts on the way


http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/nuclear-arsenal-subject-pentagon-cuts-new-subs-may-escape-ax/