ML20100G610

Informs That Total Number of 840710-0814 strike-related Union Member Resignations from Local Emergency Response Organization Stands at 106.Members Will Be Replaced

ML20100G610
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	09/07/1984
From:	Irwin D HUNTON & WILLIAMS, LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO.
To:	Kline J, Laurenson J, Shon F Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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James A. Laurenson, Esq., Dr. Jerry R. Eline Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board i

! Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

{ U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

, Commission East-West Tower, Rs. 427 1 East-West Tower, Rs. 402A 4350 East-West Bwy.

! 4350 East-West Bwy. Bethesda, MD 20814

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Mr. Frederick J. Shon Atomic Safety and Licensing i Board

! U.S. Nuclear Regulatory l Commission

! East-West Tower, Rs. 430 j 4350 East-West Bwy.

i Bethesda, ND 20814 Long Island Lighting Company l (Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1) [

Docket No. 50-322-OL-3 Gentlemen ,

As of August 27, the date of LILCO's Answer to the I l

August 20 Notion of Suffolk County to Admit New Contention, i LILCO believed, and so stated, that the total number of union- i member resignations from LERO associated with the strike which -

began on July 10 ar.d ended on August 14 was 33. LILCO has be- [

come aware this week and notified counsel yesterday of 73 j

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miscellaneous additional resignations from LERO which were ap-parently submitted by union members during the general period of the strike. This makes a total of 106 apparent strike-related resignations, out of over 1200 union members and ap-proximately 1800 total members of LERO. LILCO has every reason to believe that these resignations represent the outer bound of strike-related LERO manning losses. LILCO also has every ex-pectation that these presumptively lost LERO members can and will be replaced and trained. Finally, this change in the num-ber of strike-related losses (from about 1.8% to about 5.8% of LERO) does not affect any of the arguments advanced in LILCO's Answer.

On a related matter, LILCO's August 27 Answer stated that the business manager for the LILCO clerical workers.' union had not yet executed a statement attesting to the independence

, of LERO participation from the LILCO-union relationship (see Kelleher Affidayit, 1 7). He since has done so; it is at-tached.

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Donald P. Irwin Counsel for Long Island Lighting Company 91/586 Enclosure cc w/

Enclosure:

Eleanor L. Frucci, Esq.

! Bernard M. Bordenick, Esq. /

Lawrence Coe Lanpher, Esq./

Fabian G. Palomino, Esq.

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STATENENT OY RECEASD N.

The Union recognises that the Local Energency Response Organisation (LERO) is a voluntary organisation and outside the aarnal scope of the Company *s business. It further recognises that members of Local Union 1049, ZREW who have volunteered for assignments in LERO are performing duties and functions not as.sociated with normal operations of the Company or in job classifications covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Company and the Union. Accordingly, the Union has no objection to any of its members volunteering for LERO assignments.

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ATTACHMENT D NEWSDAY, FRIDAY, NOVEMaER 9.10a4 THE 1_,

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LILCO Offers $500 Bonus For Evacuation Staffers -

Attempting to bobter the rankiofits force of employees to run the evacuation plan for the Shoreham nuclear power plant, long Island Lighting Co. chairman Wilham Catacosinos has offered every worker 5500 to volunteer for a year.

In a letter sent to all company employees, Cata-mainos said he was making the oKer because

" classroom training and drills are occasionally scheduled outside the normal working hours."

But the offer comes aAer what Catacosinos has admitted is the loss of more than 200 volunteers in the wake of the bitter company strike last sum.

mer. %e company is also attempting to recruit retirees. The company's goal is to get 525 volun.,

teers over the normal full complement of 1,750.

Herbert Brown, attorney for Sumik County, which has claimed the LILCO plan is unwork-able, said the oKer throws into question whether the plan "is living up to the capabilities that Lil40 promised earlier." Under the plan. LpfO workers substitute for county employees. The county has refused to participate in emergency planning, claiming evacuation in the event of an emergency at Shoreham is impossible. * * '

According to the bonus proposal, those who cur-rently belong to the company's emergency team, would get the first $250 by Dec.15 at the end of a refresher training course, while new yolunteers would get the first payment by the end of Janu.

ary. The remander of the 5500 would be paid De-cember,1985. However, employees who leave the plan before a year is up would have to return the money they have already received.

New volunteers are being through Nov. 23. If the number goes above e ,the company will select employees whose liaare best suited the emergency organisation's needs o w#iniuheand

ATTACHMENT E LILCO austerity plan causing big woes By MICHAEL HANRAHAN ployes in resigning from the com- stock was up to 7% by midweek and pany fostered Shoreham emergen- still rising. Should Shoreham open, cy response organization, LILCO as many people now believe it will.

has devised a number of bonus the stock is likely to triple in value.

THEaCo. LONG ISLAND Just might be coming Lighting plans.

inside. part at the seams-from the However, the bonus plans offered the employes have the HE SECOND bonus plan Apart from the shopworn talk of potential of even further dividing offers a $500 annual stipend the company's o going financial what was once a united company to all employes who "volun-problems, there are new signs that " esprit de corps." teer" to participate in the LILCO the austerity plan may be some- In introducing the austerity pro. Employe Response Organization thing more of a plan for obsolese- gram last February, which in. (LERO), which the company is ence, that way. although it was not intended cluded a massive layoff, LILCO proposing as the alternative to a LILCO is clearly not keeping up announced that all corporate offic. Suffolk County and state-sanc-with the required maintenance of ers' pay would be reduced 20%. tioned emergency evacuation plan, its lines and facilities. Now comes Management personnel making required by federal law as a condi-word that builders of new homes more than $35,000 a year had their tion tu licensing of a nuclear plant.

on the Island were unable to get salaries cut 10%, while those ear. Since the strike many LILCO power turned on in their develop. ning less received $% pay reduc- employes are repor,tedly resigning ments without long delays because tions'en came the bitter strikefrom by the LERO organization team LILCO did not have the re Th as a means of showing their un-

, underground transformers quired unionized employes over company happiness with the company and R Word is that LILCO ran out of demands for givebacks in wages the treatment of long term workers

, stock on the equipment. The and fringes. The eventual strike during and after the employe walk-reason: "They blew it," said one settlement resulted in a contract out.

management employe. agreement that preserved em. The LERO bonus plan even pro-it wasn t a question of finan- ployes' fringe benefits but imposed vides for half the bonus to be paid eing; it was poor management. a twoyear wage freeze on non- as soon after Dec. I as the employe Wsth the austerity layoffs, com- management unionized employes. completes training in the program.

t Catacosinos, in . announcing the bined with the executive bailout on OW, LESS THAN two bonuses, said the company expecta the " unhappy," although not neces-sarily sinking, ship there wasn't months af ter the union em- that the LERO evacuation team ploye pay freeze, LILCO will have to be ready for a public anyone in place to process new Chairman William Catacosinos drill early next year as a prere-i orders for the equipment. To re- proposes a company giveback to quisite to the Shoreham licensing j solve the situation, LILCO bor- management staffers that is likely proceedmgs.

rowed from other companies' to provide them all with huge stock it all appears to be geared to f major.and Butcostly that was the consuining public.

not before some monetary inconveniences to ' pay cuta. profits in excess The plan, proposed as an incen.

of their holding the company together until the opening of Shoreham.

But if LILCO can't now meet the In an effort to stop the rush to tive to keep middle management demands of everyday operations, the exit doors by middle manage- personnel with the company until what will it do in the event of an ment personnel taking up jobs at least next April,is to grant the emergency power shortage or elsewhere, and what might even be employes one share of LILCO storm disruption? If it is coming considered a post strike mini- stock for every SS in pay lost apart at the seams now, what will mutiny by nonmanagement em- throughout the year in 1984. The happen after Shoreham?

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

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.In the Matter.of.. )

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LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY ) Docket No. 50-322-OL-3

) (Emergency Planning)

(Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, )

Unit 1) )

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of Suffolk County and State of-New York Submission Pursuant to McGuire Decision have been served to the following this 5th day of December, 1984 by U.S. mail, .

first class, except as otherwise noted.

James A. Laurenson, Chairman James B. Dougherty, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 3045 Porter Street, N.W.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20008 Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. Jay Dunkleberger Dr. Jerry R. Kline New York State Energy Office Administrative Judge Agency Building 2 Atomic ~ Safety and Licensing Board Empire State Plaza U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Albany, New York 12223 Washington, D.C. 20555 W. Taylor Reveley, III, Esq.

Mr. Frederick J. Shon Hunton a Williams Administrative Judge' P.O. Box 1535 Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 707 East Main Street.

U.S. Nuclear Pegulatory Commission Richmond, Virginia 23212 Washington, D.C. 20555 Fabian Palomino, Esq.

Edward M. Barnett, Esq. Special Counsel to Governor General Counsel Executive Chamber Long Island Lighting Company Room 229 250 Old Country Road State Capitol Mineola, New York 11501 Albany, New York 12224 Mr. Brian McCaffrey Stephen B. Latham, Esq.

Long Island Lighting Company Twomey, Latham & Shea Shoreham Nuclear Power Station P.O. Box 398 P.O. Box 618 33 West Second Street North Country Road Riverhead, New York 11901 Wading River, New York 11792

Joel Blau, Esq. MHB Technical Associates New York Public Service Commission 1723 Hamilton Avenue The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Suite K Building Empire State Plaza San Jose, Califgrnia 95125 Albany, New York 12223 Hon. Peter F. Cohalan Suffolk County Executive Martin Bradley Ashqre, Esq. H. Lee Dennison Building Suffolk County Attorney Veterans Memorial Highway H. Lee Dennison Building Hauppauge, New York 11788 Veterans Memorial Highway Hauppauge, New York 11788 Stuart Diamond Business / Financial Atomic Safety and Licensing New York Times Board Panel 229 W. 43rd Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission New York, New York 10036 Washington, D.C. 20555 Docketing and Service Section Atomic Safety and Licensing Office of the Secretary Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 1717 H Street, N.W. Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Bernard M. Bordenick, Esq. Jonathan D. Feinberg, Esq.

Edwin J. Reis, Esq. Staff Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission New York State Public Washington, D.C. 20555 Service Commission 3 Rockefeller Plaza Stewart M. Glass, Esq. Albany, New York 12223 Regional Counsel Federal Emergency Management Nora Bredes Agency Executive Director 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1349 Shoreham Opponents Coalition New York, New York 10278 195 East Main Street Smithtown, New York 11787 Ms. Donna D. Duer Spence Perry, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Associate General Counsel Board Panel Federal Emergency Management U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Agency Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20472 Michael S. ' Miller KIRKPATRICl* & LOCKHART 1900 M Street, N.W., Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20036