[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats (CO) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Benefits go bust for Flats workers

About 70 lose with cleanup's early end

By Kevin Vaughan And Todd Hartman
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
October 15, 2005

Dozens of Rocky Flats workers who helped to clean up the nuclear weapons 
plant much sooner than originally anticipated now face an unintended 
consequence of their fast work: By finishing ahead of schedule, they 
missed out on pensions and lifetime medical benefits.

About 70 former plant employees saw their hopes for retirement benefits 
vanish when Kaiser-Hill Co. completed the decadelong decontamination and 
demolition of Rocky Flats more than a year early.

That group, who were among the thousands of employees who made the 
transition from bomb builders to cleanup workers, would have been 
eligible for benefits if Kaiser-Hill had taken all the time the 
government gave it - until Dec. 15, 2006 - to complete the job.

...

For the entire article, see
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_4160436,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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