B&W Retiree Newsletter No More
Monday, I told you that B&W was dropping the Newsletter we have enjoyed for years. I suggested it was probably a cost cutting action. Below is an exerpt from Frank Munger's blog. As you can see, the move was indeed about saving money - $16,000. I think the B&W budget is only about $900,000,000. So clearly, the $16,000 is crucial to the success of the B&W mission at Y-12.
-The Editor
ps: Thanks for helping Frank!
Bill Wilburn, a B&W spokesman, said the move was about saving money and was not a negative action against CORRE.
"The retiree newsletter was discontinued as a cost-saving measure and because it was providing information that was often redundant to information sent to retirees by the B&W Y-12 Human Capital organization," Wilburn said in a statement by e-mail
He said the cost saving was more than $16,000 per year.
"Additionally, when the retiree newsletter was started, the retiree group CORRE did not have its own Web site through which it could provide information to its members," Wilburn said.