Staff Reports
NS&D Monitor
3/27/2015
Consolidated Nuclear Security is continuing to try to address employee concerns about benefit reductions at Y-12 and Pantex while trying to carry out its promise to reduce costs and bring the plants into compliance with Department of Energy orders. About 400 Pantex employees reportedly met with health care providers March 10-12 to help resolve issues about changes in health care coverage, and Y-12 employees will get their chance next week for one-on-one meetings with health providers. Oak Ridge appointments are being scheduled for March 31, April 1 and 2.
The firestorm of employee concerns has drawn almost as much attention as the CNS efforts to fulfill its commitments to cost savings by combining management of the two plants in two different states 1,000 miles apart. CNS, as part of its bidding proposal, promised to save the government more than $3 billion over the next decade by eliminating redundancies and making operations more efficient.
Meanwhile, the Bechtel-led contractor team has released to employees a complete list of the 27 companies that were used to provide benefit comparisons, as part of its compliance with DOE Order 350.1. Those companies are: The Aerospace Corporation; Alliant Techsystems; Battelle BCO; Boeing; Caterpillar; CH2M Hill; Curtiss-Wright; DuPont; GE; Georgia Power; Goodyear Tire; Gulfstream Aerospace; Jacobs Engineering; Johnson Controls; Lockheed Martin; Los Alamos; Motorola Solutions; Northrup Grumman; Raytheon; Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC); Sprint Nextel; Tennessee Valley Authority; Textron; United Technologies Corporation; URS Energy; UT-Battelle ORNL; Woodward, Inc.
