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Demonstrators Protest Y-12 Security Company
The grass-roots organization Protects USA yesterday staged a demonstration at a labor management conference in Tennessee to criticize the private security force employed at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Dec. 21, 2004). Four demonstrators appeared at the Tennessee Labor Management Conference in Knoxville dressed as “Keystone Kops” to criticize Wackenhut Services Inc. The company’s general manager and senior vice president, Jean Burleson, presided over the conference. “Wackenhut Security is guarding some of our most sensitive sites in the country, including Y-12,” said demonstrator Susan Slohm. “They have a very bad track record for … lying, tipping each other on tests, doing all kinds of things. This is not who we want guarding our nuclear sites.” It is not yet known if the U.S. Energy Department plans to renew Wackenhut’s contract to guard the Oak Ridge facility, AP reported. The department is investigating Wackenhut billing and training at Y-12, according to AP. Burleson said there had been accusations that the company allowed guards to leave training classes before they were over. Burleson, however, rejected such criticism. “All these allegations are investigated. (And) the investigations show that they are not true,” he said (Duncan Mansfield, Associated Press/The Tennessean, March 3).
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