Dozens of the 14,000 workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory — the birthplace of the atomic bomb — are suing over the vaccine mandate, saying Triad National Security, the contractor that runs the lab, unduly denied exemptions and violated their rights.
The plaintiffs include scientists, nuclear engineers, project managers, research technicians and others who have some of the highest security clearances in the nation for the work they do. Many are specialists in their fields and would be difficult to replace in the short term.
“In any organization there are people, not always recognized, who quietly make the work of others possible. Lose them, and you are in trouble,” said Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group, a watchdog group that has been monitoring lab activities for years. The lawsuit cites statements made over the last year by top officials in the U.S. and with the World Health Organization in which they noted that there is more to be learned about how the vaccines reduce infection and how effective they are when it comes to preventing infected people from passing it on.
Some of the workers have raised similar arguments, saying the high degree of scrutiny that is required of them when working with nuclear weapons or other high-level projects is not being applied on the vaccine front despite the lab’s extensive modeling work for the state on spread and other COVID-19 related trends.
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