LANL employees

LANL employees are not government employees, but are private-sector employees.

Should be entertaining to watch McMillan reconcile this official lab release with his statments that the Lab works in the public interest.


"Steve Sandoval, a LANL spokesman, said lab employees are not government employees.

“We are employees of Los Alamos National Security LLC and thus considered private-sector employees,” he said."

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/hatch-act-sidelines-would-be-candidate-for-county-commission/article_66741fd0-8129-5b9f-a7ce-21f44db2f219.html

 

Anonymous said...

Of course the LANS and LLNS workers are "private sector." And a whole host of applicable laws and regulations prove it. By the way, there are no "LANL (or LLNL) employees." LANL and LLNL are facilities owned by the government, not employers. The contractors hired to run these facilities are the employers.

Lots of private-sector employees work in the public interest. Most government contractors, including military, NWC, the US Postal Service, plus communications workers, health workers, etc. Hell, you could argue that anyone providing goods or services needed by the public is working "in the public interest." I suggest you get a broader, more correct view of the situation.

nuclear personnel in New Mexico incompetent?

An interview on ploughshares calls the nuclear personnel in New Mexico incompetent:

http://www.ploughshares.org/blog/2014-03-20/desperate-need-spring-cleaning-us

Where is LANL?

Where is LANL?

Notice that LBNL had two, LLNL had one, and even SNL had three winners of this big time award, whereas LANL had exactally zero, zip, zilch, nada.

Department of Energy

Dr. Brian Anderson, West Virginia University

Dr. Theodore Betley, Harvard University

Dr. Matthew Brake, Sandia National Laboratories

Mr. Adrian Chavez, Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Gary Douberly, University of Georgia

Dr. Mattan Erez, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University

Dr. Daniel Kasen, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Meimei Li, Argonne National Laboratory

Dr. Miguel Morales, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Dr. Jennifer Reed, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Dr. Seth Root, Sandia National Laboratories

Dr. Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/23/president-obama-honors-outstanding-early-career-scientists

 

Anonymous said...

John Sarrao of LANL just won the E. O. Lawrence Award, a much bigger deal.

 

Anonymous said...

No APS Fellows from LANL this year either. Fitting for Rocky Flats II.

 

Devastating NIF graphic:

Devastating NIF graphic:

http://twitpic.com/e1beo6

DOE 708 "employee protection" posters

Why do we have DOE 708 "employee protection" posters at LLNS everywhere starting in early March 2014?

New AMES director

http://m.amestrib.com/news/schwartz-named-new-director-ames-lab

LANL health benefits cut for thousands.

LANL health benefits cut for thousands.
On April 17th thousands of LANL employees had their health benefits on the BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) PPO cancelled. LANL blamed BCBS, but calls by employees to BCBS yielded a BCBS claim that LANL had defunded the plan. LANL employees with health care expenses were left to shoulder the expense themselves because local care providers had no confidence in LANL. As of this post McMillan had made NO MENTION of it and no information was posted on the LANL website, but all claims were being refused by providers. Confidence in the nuclear weapons complex is disintegrating from inside and out… things fall apart.