[LWVNM Action] Federal Workforce in New Mexico

[Nandini Kuehn]

>From the Idaho Capital Sun:

The federal workforce is employed all over the country, with 80% outside
the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia metro area. States with a
high presence of federal employees include California, Texas, Florida,
Georgia, Pennsylvania, Alaska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Oregon.

But if LANL and Sandia are not federal, this must be Kirkland Air Force
(civilians), VA...

The Journal reported that Sandia and LANL won't be cut per the Sec of the
Interior ...

Nandini

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025, 9:43 AM Judy Williams via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> I saw an article this morning listing the hardest-hit states.  I believe
> NM was #5, or maybe 4.  I can't find the link now.  Judy
>
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM Barbara Calef via Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
>> Dick,
>> Most of the ~15,000 people working at LANL are not federal employees.
>> Since I have not seen the article, I don't know what it is claiming.  I
>> spoke to an NNSA employee on Sunday.  She said that NNSA has 80 people at
>> the Lab.
>> From Google: *According to available information, while the exact number
>> fluctuates, around 120 DOE employees are stationed at Los Alamos National
>> Laboratory (LANL) to provide federal oversight over the laboratory's
>> operations, making them the primary "federal employees" within the LANL
>> workforce; the vast majority of LANL employees are not directly federal
>> employees but work for the contractor company that operates the lab, Triad
>> National Security, LLC. *
>> Barbara
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM Richard Mason via Action <
>> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>>> New Mexico has highest percentage of federal workers across all
>>> districts - from an AP article
>>>
>>> All three of New Mexico’s House districts are represented by Democrats,
>>> and all of them have significant federal workforces.
>>>
>>> Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, two
>>> major federal research institutions, are located in the state, where the
>>> federal government is the No. 2 largest employer, according to the New
>>> Mexico Partnership.
>>>
>>> Percentages of federal workers across the districts range from 6.3% in
>>> Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez’s 3rd District to 6.2% in Rep. Gabriel
>>> Vasquez’s 2nd District. In the 1st District, represented by Rep. Melanie
>>> Ann Stansbury, the workforce is 6.8% federal employees.
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