A recent lapse of safety service contracts at the Montlake laboratory has raised serious concerns about workplace safety and sanitation, especially in a lab handling hazardous materials. With crucial positions unfilled, employees are left precariously managing safety tasks and janitorial duties, straining operational effectiveness. Union leaders have highlighted these disruptions as part of a wider pattern of instability affecting federal employees under the Trump administration, leading to a stressful workplace environment and growing anxiety among staff about their job security.
"It's making our work unsafe, and it's unsanitary for any workplace, but especially an active laboratory full of fire-reactive chemicals and bacteria, one Montlake researcher said."
"During a big staff meeting at Montlake on Wednesday, lab leaders said they had no updates on when the contracts might be renewed, one researcher said."
"Nick Tolimieri, a union representative for Montlake employees, said the problem is 'all part of the large-scale bullying program' to push out federal workers."
"It seems like every Friday 'we get some kind of message that makes you unable to sleep for the entire weekend,' he said."
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