I talked earlier today with Steve Jones, president of the Atomic Trades and Labor Council in Oak Ridge, and asked him about the situation at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant — where about 1,150 union workers went on strike over the weekend.
Jones said he didn’t want to comment directly on the action at Y-12’s sister plant near Amarillo, Texas.
“We support them, of course,” he said, referring to the Metal Trades Council, which represents the 10 unions on strike at Pantex. But the Pantex strike doesn’t change anything at Y-12 at this point, he said.
“We’re going to take a wait-and-see (approach), because we haven’t seen a proposal yet,” Jones said. “We’ll just have to wait and see what proposal is made to us.” Continue reading