Consolidated Nuclear Security, the prime contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons sites, reached a new collective bargaining agreement with a union representing Y-12 security personnel in Tennessee.
The five-year contract with International Guards Union of America will go into effect in August and run through Aug. 15, 2023, according to a Tuesday press release from Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS).
The agreement “applies to Y-12 Protective Force employees, which is a little more than 360 people,” a CNS spokesperson wrote in an email.
The union had not posted a copy of the new collective bargaining agreement online at deadline Friday for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor. The CNS spokesperson said the company had no contract details to share.
Besides security workers at Y-12 National Security Complex, the International Guards Union of America also represents guards at the Pantex weapons assembly-disassembly plant in Amarillo, Texas. The Pantex guards’ union contract runs through February 10, 2019.
CNS manages Y-12 and Pantex under a contract awarded in 2013 and worth roughly $20 billion through part of 2024, with options. That includes a subcontract with Bechtel National to build the Uranium Processing Facility: a next-generation plant to replace a World War II-era facility that shapes fissile material for weapons and military reactors.
