At its December meeting the CORRE Board approved revisions to the Bylaws. Nomination and election of Board members constitute the significant revisions.
The complete set of Bylaws is now posted on the CORRE website.
The Editor
Troy Trotter will retire from the CORRE Board at the end of this month after many years of pushing for better retiree benefits. Troy, along with Joe Dykstra and a few others, led the way in organizing CORRE.
If you know Troy, you should call him and thank him for his service.
The Editor
The CORRE Board met today. Paula Wright, CORRE Treasurer, reported that 62 retired employees became active CORRE members in November and 22 more have joined as of December 18. The total active membership is now almost 3100.
If you know of a retiree who is not an active member, ask him or her to join. It is important that we have as many active members as possible.
The Editor
Congressman Wamp in an email to Frank Munger of the Knoxville News Sentinel said that the outlook is poor for pension adjustments under the Bodman regime at DOE, and that retirees may have to wait for a new Secretary of Energy. Further, Congressman Wamp complained about the difficulty of getting a fix of the pension problems legislatively. You can read the exact quotes from Congressman Wamp's email on Munger's blog.
Of course retirees already know that the prospect is bleak for adjustments under Secretary Bodman and that getting things done legislatively is difficult. Yet that is what we call upon Congressman Wamp to do. He is a good part of our representation in Congress on this matter, and he cannot rest until the injustice of DOE treatment of Oak Ridge retirees is corrected. He shares this responsibility directly with the two senators from Tennessee and Congressmen Lincoln Davis and John Duncan because they all represent thousands of Oak Ridge DOE contractor retirees and, I might add, present employees. They must keep this issue before Bodman, the administration, and the Congress.
Merry Christmas, Everybody!
