“Yesterday, the Trump administration began indiscriminately laying off Hanford workers in Washington state,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., in a prepared statement Friday.
Workers assigned to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, also lost their jobs, as well as employees of Bonneville Power Administration, she said. She suspects there have been hundreds of layoffs at BPA, which supplies much of the electricity for the Tri-Cities area. Murray said that more than a dozen DOE workers were laid off at DOE’s Hanford office in Richland, including safety engineers and environmental scientists. They apparently were people who had been hired within the last one to two years and were still in a probationary period of their jobs with the federal government. “These reckless firings will slow down critical cleanup work and make workers less safe,” Murray said. “Trying to run Hanford with a skeleton crew is a recipe for disaster that could have irreversible impacts.”
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Workers assigned to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, also lost their jobs, as well as employees of Bonneville Power Administration, she said. She suspects there have been hundreds of layoffs at BPA, which supplies much of the electricity for the Tri-Cities area. Murray said that more than a dozen DOE workers were laid off at DOE’s Hanford office in Richland, including safety engineers and environmental scientists. They apparently were people who had been hired within the last one to two years and were still in a probationary period of their jobs with the federal government. “These reckless firings will slow down critical cleanup work and make workers less safe,” Murray said. “Trying to run Hanford with a skeleton crew is a recipe for disaster that could have irreversible impacts.”
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