INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
and bacteria, one Montlake researcher said.Press officers at NOAA, the Commerce Department, and the White House did not respond to requests
Wednesday, which decimated the staff that had handled plumbing, HVAC, and the elevators
Other contacts lapsed in late March, leaving the Seattle lab with zero janitorial staff and a skeleton crew of IT specialists.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
They also acknowledged it was unfair that everyone would need to pitch in on janitorial duties on top of their actual jobs.Nick Tolimieri, a
long-time operational support
Yesterday, hundreds of NOAA workers who had been fired in February, then briefly reinstated, were fired again.
