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| Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Lab employees win better retirement benefits
NEW: Lab employees win better retirement benefits By Betsy Mason, MEDIANEWS Inside Bay Area Article Last Updated:07/11/2007 06:18:11 PM PDT After much protesting by Lawrence Livermore Lab employees about the downgrading of their gold-plated retirement benefits under future corporate management, a better deal has been forged. A team of California and New Mexico Congress members, led by Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo, have pushed the Department of Energy to change key provisions in its pension plans for Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National laboratories. "This is a huge victory for our security and for the lab employees who have devoted their careers to keeping us safe," Tauscher said in a statement Wednesday. Full Article From: A. L. (Pete) Lotts Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 4:57 PM Subject: Livermore employee pressure reverses lowering of retirement benefits To Congressional Staff members- Oak Ridge continues to be the last place for fair treatment by the DOE, as evidenced by this article. Please look at the excerpt of an article from the California Bay area. http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2007/07/lab-employees-win-better-retirement.html The LLNL employees won this victory through action of Senators and representatives from California and New Mexico. Key senators were Dominici, Feinsteins, and Bingamin. Read the whole thing if you want to see how many Congressmen were involved. I wonder when we will see this type of support in Oak Ridge. You can see that Secretary of Energy Bodman does give in when forced. It takes concerted action and belief in your people, not in belief in a theoretical idealogy. Mr. Bodman is wrong in his thinking about pensions because it is leading to marginalization of a sizeable part of your constituency and to the unnecessary impoverishment of a a number of a class of people in your state and districts. Pete Lotts Chair, Government Relations Committee Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees 865-675-7394 www.corre.info |
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12,000 Former K-25, Y-12, and ORNL Employees
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