Entergy Corp. (ETR), the second-largest U.S. nuclear-power generator is staffing its Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts with management and workers from other plants after contract talks with a union failed.
A union assertion that local members reserve the right to walk off the job at any time without notice is “unacceptable” because it disregards public safety and may violate the plant’s operating license, New Orleans-based Entergy said today in a statement.
Entergy locked out workers who are “critical to safely managing” the plant, Dan Hurley, president of Utility Workers Union of America Local 369, said in a separate statement.
The announcements were made before regular trading began on U.S. markets. Entergy rose 0.6 percent to $64.93 yesterday in New York.
The Pilgrim nuclear power station is located 38 miles (61 kilometers) southeast of Boston in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The 685-megawatt plant can power about 548,000 average homes. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced May 29 it had renewed the 40-year-old plant’s operating license for another 20 years.
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