Unionized guards at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state were preparing to vote Thursday on a proposed new contract with the Leidos-led landlord contractor.
After talks continued this week between Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) and Hanford Guards Union (HGU) Local 21, “We are pleased to share that we have a tentative agreement on a new contract and that HGU will be voting on the agreement tomorrow,” an HMIS spokesperson said late Thursday.
A number of prior contract votes have failed at HGU since HMIS locked out the union security people on Nov. 27. The previous contract expired Nov. 1 and HMIS locked out union members after a few short contract extensions.
HMIS has said a number of times in recent weeks it believed the two sides were at an impasse and it has authority to impose a last and final offer issued to the union last month. The parties have been negotiating with assistance of a federal mediator.
