Eleventh hour agreement at NH nuclear plant lets union members keep working
Managers and union representatives at a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire agreed to terms of a new contract in the last day before a lockout involving significant numbers of employees would have gone into effect.
The two sides had agreed on the important concern of employee pay, said local news channel NBC 6. But the union disagreed with plant owners' plans to rearrange employee attendance schedules to reduce overtime pay on weekends and the elimination of some firefighting positions.
A union representative said he was concerned because the changes proposed by plant owners would make employees test subjects for the effectiveness of a new organizational structure. But plant managers said the changes would bring the location in line with other power facilities in the U.S. Plant representatives also stated that the union had resisted presenting the new contract terms to its members, according to an earlier report from NBC 6.
Had the lockout gone through it would have barred about one-third of the plant's total employees, 226 in all, from attending work.
Because nuclear power plants are extremely secure, advanced employee management software and hardware, including fingerprint time clocks, are sometimes used in the facilities.
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