Health and Safety

• Do you work with plutonium? Beryllium?
• Are the safety standards on your job sufficient?
• Are they followed? Is safety jeopardized when you’re short-staffed or under deadline?

Job Security

• Is your funding secure?
• Can you be laid off?
• What kind of notice would you get?
• Do you have seniority rights?

 Retirement Security

• Are you confident you will have enough income/savings after you retire?
• Have your benefits decreased?

Quality of Work/Personal Life

• Does on-the-job stress affect your personal life?
• Do you feel pressured to work harder/faster?
• Is your input valued at work?
• Do you feel that you and your work are acknowledged and respected?

YOU Need a Union!

These concerns are most effectively addressed when we work together. Contact us at lanl@upte-cwa.org or 925-449-4846

 

What UPTE-LANL Stands For:

• A grievance procedure that really works, with enforceable deadlines and procedural integrity
• Seniority as a basis for layoffs, rather than subjective or arbitrary factors
• An end to discrimination in the workplace based on race, sex, age, veteran status and sexual orientation, including discrimination in layoff and sex-based wage discrimination
• A workplace free of fear of retaliation ­ for whistleblowing, for organizing, for filing grievances, for raising health and safety concerns, and for speaking up about problems at LANL
• Decent wages that reflect the responsibility and complexity of our jobs, and salary increases that are awarded fairly without favoritism, discrimination, or retaliation

Topics of Interest:

• UPTE-LANL Letter to New LANL Director Mason (2019)
• Triad LLC Contract with DOE to run LANL (2019)
• UPTE Applauds New LANL Contractor that Supports Research, Development and Employees – Not Profits; and Urges New Contractor to Adopt Two Structural Reforms, Offers to Help Change Safety Culture (June 2018)
  
• Differences Between Final LANL RFP and Draft LANL RFP  (11/2017) 
• Department of Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the  Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)  
• Comments on Draft LANL RFP submitted by UPTE-CWA (July 24, 2017) 
• Proposed LANL Framework Document (July 12, 2017) 
• Letter to Secretary Perry from New Mexico Delegation (May, 12, 2017) 
• National Nuclear Security Administration Request for Proposal (July 13, 2017) 
• Deprivatize the Labs

Join Us!

• Print out the UPTE Membership Application Form.
• Fill out the form and sign it in the lower right corner where indicated.
• Mail it to: UPTE Local 1663, 1907 Central Ave, Suite 200, Los Alamos, NM 87544