[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
RE: NY Times - nuke guards swamped by overtime
People, when discussign this topic, it would be
helpful to keep a few things in mind:
1. 12 hour shifts routinely turn into 14 and 15 hour
shifts. Many guards (and plant workers for that
matter) live 60 to 90 minutes from the plant. Fifteen
hours spent at work plus an hour to get ready for
work, an hour to drive to work, and an hour to drive
back home gives the person only 6 hours of sleep -
assuming that they don't eat any supper or spend any
time with their family. At least on a ship/sub, your
bunk is only a few minutes walk away and if it takes
you more than a few minutes to get ready for duty then
you got problems.
2. Being tired is, surprisingly, not cause for being
declared not fit for duty. If a guard is called in
for duty on his day off and they refuse because they
are too tired, they will get fired. What choice do
they have but to go in and continue working to help
support their family? I guess they could say that
they were drinking...on their day off...at 7 AM.
3. People that are in the military sign on knowing
full well that they will have to spend long
deployments away from family - it's part of the job.
Security guards at a nuke plant never signed up for
only spending a few minutes with their family a day
for months on end.
4. Federalizing security guards is a ridiculous idea.
If that were to take place, where would...uh, I
dunno...Indian Point get it's force? The existing
security guards would be a good pool to choose from.
What difference would it make in the force? The only
thing that would change is who they get their
paychecks from.
5. Security is not an inherently governmental
function. The gov't sets the standards that the
guards must meet and those standards will not change
if the gov't becomes their employer. The people will
remain the same.
6. Many plants are already going through the process
of hiring and training new guards. It doesn't happen
overnight - it takes time.
Tim
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
************************************************************************
You are currently subscribed to the Radsafe mailing list. To unsubscribe,
send an e-mail to Majordomo@list.vanderbilt.edu Put the text "unsubscribe
radsafe" (no quote marks) in the body of the e-mail, with no subject line.
You can view the Radsafe archives at http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/