Members of the Hanford Atomic Metals Trade Council at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state have ratified labor agreement extensions for much of the unionized workforces of four of the largest federal contractors at the nuclear cleanup site, according to a recent Facebook post by the council.
“All four of the contractor’s ratification votes passed,” the Hanford Atomic Metals Trade Council, part of the AFL-CIO’s Metal Trades Department, said in a Nov. 8 posting on its Facebook page.
The council, an umbrella group representing around 2,500 unionized workers at Hanford, did not provide voting margins. In prior Facebook posts, the council said it recommended approval of the one-year contract extensions for Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integrated Solutions, Amentum-led Central Plateau Cleanup Co., Amentum-led Washington River Protection Solutions and Navarro-led Hanford Laboratory Management and Integration.
The bargaining team from the Hanford Atomic Metals Trade Council recommended “a YES vote to extend our current contracts for a year, keep our medical benefits the same, and get a 3% pay raise,” according to a Nov. 5 Facebook post. In reports filed on DOE’s Hanford web site, a couple of the affected contractors said the extension would run through Nov. 1, 2022.
