ML20100K946

Discusses Citizens Concerns Re non-skilled Workers Who Do Not Have Expertise to Handle Crisis Situation in Nulear Plant

ML20100K946
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Site:	LaSalle
Issue date:	01/31/1996
From:	Olmes N AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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6-United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner Shirley Jackson 11545 Rockville Pike j

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Dear Ms. Jacksons i

As a wife and mother who has had a husband and son who have worked construction on the various nuclear plants, I am very alarmed and very disturbed about the problems arising over a fair contract with your employees.

Once again this is UNION related!

Break the Unions - much as what Catepillar has put their workers through over the past year and a half.

You talk " price freeze," " reaching out," " positive difference in the life of a neighbor," " gatekeeper,"

" customers who truly need" - why not apply these same principles to your own union workers /emplyees.

Shouldn't fairness begin at one's own doorstep?

Why not negotiate in

. good faith - with your already-trained / skilled employees.

They are the ones who have made your record profits and kept l

your plants operable - not unskilled workers off the streets at half the wages.

More profits to you??-

i Non-skilled workers will not have the expertise to handle a crisis situation.

With nuke plants in the radius of 75-100 miles from our homes, everyone is truly concerned about the safety of our families.

"Please protect our safety."

Keep your trained / skilled employees - be fair!!

Sincerely, W. Y&

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. Nuclear Itegulatory Commission has with r, 11 am submitting this letter to infonn Comed's ability to safely opeiate and. l readers of impending problems that could ;

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the ongoing labor. dispute results in IAcal-l pute between Comed and IBEW Imcal 15..

15 members walking off the job in protest, 4As most in the area are aware, Comed will Comed managem be able to_aperate :

t aims and operates six nuclear generating j' the facilities safely with half the people? ;,

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'sthiions in Northern Illinois. One of these c Will people who have not touched the1 c gibants is located in Brookfield 'Ibwnshipc cont sis of a reac;or for months ~ r yeam -

o Ophe approximately 18,000 Comed; he able to safely'run these units? In thef.y i

ssriployees, IBEW Imcal Union 15 repre-aftarmath'of the Chernobylincidant it was :

I sents about 9,300 persees_ who are respon.

discovemd that perseas who shseld have e J sRde for generating,.tF

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7Since April 1, Imcal 15 has been woddng pie with no recent practical or on-the-job without a contract as a result of Comed's exponence be allowed to run.and snalntain

, refusal to sit down and negotiate in goodi Comed plants?i i intth. On'Jan.1,' 1996 (after recorti profits -

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m i hi 1995), Comed imposed its own version -

h( what it thought was a fair contract. In :

concern about the safety of their famihes, f jdoingso,ComEdremoved allof theguar-neighbors, and commumties? If so,.!,

would sigigest they wdte the NRC and ask' 7 aintees that skilled and experienced work; what they willbe doing to pmtect our

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