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- Feds to investigate Livermore Lab's handling of toxic metal
- Five incidents involving Livermore Lab's handling of the toxic metal beryllium have prompted two investigations. A team of outside experts audited beryllium work at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory last month and federal regulators are set to follow up with their own review in September. Some of the...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- Feds to investigate Livermore Lab's handling of toxic metal
- Five incidents involving Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's handling of the toxic metal beryllium have prompted two separate investigations. A team of outside experts audited beryllium work at the Lab last month and federal regulators are set to follow up with their own review in September. Some...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- Rule benefits some sick lab workers
- Former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers who became ill from on-the-job exposure to radiation will now have their compensation claims fast-tracked through the Department of Labor. Effective today, a new rule added to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act will make the claims process significantly...
- Research articles 2008-04-07
- New rule speeds up help for some sick lab workers
- Former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers who became ill from on-the-job exposure to radiation will now have their compensation claims fast-tracked through the Department of Labor. Effective today, a new rule added to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act will make the claims process significantly...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Rule speeds up help for sick lab workers
- Former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers who became ill from on-the-job exposure to radiation will now have their compensation claims fast-tracked through the Department of Labor. Effective today, a new rule added to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act will make the claims process significantly...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- Lawrence Livermore will recognize workers union
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reached an agreement with labor organizers Thursday to recognize a bargaining unit that includes 170 skilled crafts workers such as plumbers and mechanics. In return, the Society of Professionals, Scientists and Engineers, which led the unionization campaign, agreed to drop two unfair labor...
- Research articles 2008-02-29
- Livermore lab offers buyouts to up to 750 staffers
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced Monday it will offer voluntary separation packages to as many as 750 employees, including 326 scientists and engineers. The buyouts will come from the core, permanent workforce and will be given on a first-come, first- served basis. ``We think this...
- Research articles 2008-02-04
- Livermore Lab workers possibly exposed to toxin
- At least 178 contract workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory may have been exposed to the toxic metal beryllium without their knowledge while doing a seismic retrofit on a machine shop. The four-year retrofit project ended in December 2006, and in February 2007, routine beryllium tests came...
- Research articles 2008-02-03
- Livermore Lab workers possibly exposed to toxin
- At least 178 contract workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory may have been exposed to the toxic metal Beryllium without their knowledge while doing a seismic retrofit on a machine shop. The four-year retrofit project ended in December 2006, and in February 2007, routine Beryllium tests came...
- Research articles 2008-02-02
- Livermore Lab workers face layoffs
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will likely face more layoffs as it confronts a tighter federal budget, increased expenses, and a push to streamline the country's nuclear weapons complex. Lab Director George Miller told employees at an all-hands meeting Thursday morning that he's proposing a work force reduction...
- Research articles 2008-01-19
- Livermore Lab workers union recognized
- A group of Livermore lab workers including plumbers, painters and locksmiths won union status Wednesday when the state Public Employment Relations Board certified the bargaining unit, less than a week before new lab management takes over. Labor organizers had been anxious to get recognition before management of...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- Livermore Lab workers attempting to unionize
- Livermore Lab workers are attempting to organize a union before the University of California hands over management of the Energy Department lab to a new corporation Monday. Until then, lab workers are UC employees and the decision on whether to certify a union rests with the state...
- Research articles 2007-09-25
- Livermore Lab workers attempting to unionize
- Livermore Lab workers are attempting to organize a union before the University of California hands over management of the Energy Department lab to a new corporation Oct. 1. Until then, lab workers are UC employees and the decision on whether to certify a union rests with the...
- Research articles 2007-09-24
- Livermore Lab workers trying to unionize
- Workers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are attempting to organize a union before the University of California hands over management of the Energy Department lab to a new corporation Oct. 1. Until then, lab workers are UC employees and the decision on whether to certify a union rests...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- Livermore Lab workers attempting to unionize
- Livermore Lab workers are attempting to organize a union before the University of California hands over management of the Energy Department lab to a new corporation Oct. 1. Until then, lab workers are UC employees and the decision on whether to certify a union rests with the...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- Livermore Lab workers seek to unionize
- Workers of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are attempting to organize a union before the University of California hands over management of the Energy Department lab to a new corporation Oct. 1. Until then, lab workers are UC employees and the decision on whether to certify a union rests...
- Research articles 2007-09-23
- Livermore Lab staff secures pensions
- 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,...
- Research articles 2007-07-13
- Livermore Lab employees win better pensions
- After much protesting by Lawrence Livermore National 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...
- Research articles 2007-07-12
- Feds try to reassure lab workers Officials respond to Livermore Lab
- Federal nuclear weapons officials tried calming Lawrence Livermore Lab workers Friday after word that new federal requirements could result in lower retirement benefits. With dozens of angry employee phone calls and e-mails pouring into Washington, the National Nuclear Security Administration put out a statement reassuring workers that...
- Research articles 2007-06-23
- Retirees from lab may see cash cut
- The message in 40 pages of bland green slides hit research engineer Grace Clark like a body blow -- after more than 30 years at Lawrence Livermore Lab about a fifth of her future retirement benefits are at risk of vanishing, just like that. She and thousands...
- Research articles 2007-06-22
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