Dear
Jimmy Dearmore;
Note: The following message was published on or about June 24th
on the Alyeska Pipeline People Website, NOT directly affiliated
with the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company and acts merely as a site for past
employees in retirement status, or dead to stay informed and in touch. The site
contains a “Message Forum” so “Restricted to Pipeliners Only” to engage
subjects of interest, in a “chat like” environment wherein the site
administrator challenges a “Don’t be Bashful” calling. The message was in
response to a previous message published wherein the “BLM” seemed to be in question
- as an “Anarchist” movement. The response to that “questioning” is republished
below after it was taken down from the site - a violation of the U.S.
Constitution’s 1st Amendment Right to “Free Speech”, an indication
that those in Alyeska’s management ranks now in retirement still enjoy the practice
of denial in “discrimination”. The response’s author was also denied future
access to the Alyeska Pipeline People’s site administered by Larry Motschenbacher(gotoLarrys@gmail.com)
in an attempt to “Kill the Messenger”, something that the Alyeska Pipeline Service
Company was well known for in the early days of the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline’s
operations.
Dear
Jimmy D, hope all is well also with you and family. What I was getting at, the
present day events in “equal rights” discourse reminds me all too well how the
Alyeska workers in Valdez had to witness “racial attacks” upon other “minority”
Alyeska workers by an individual that was allowed to get away with it, a member
of a “White Supremist” group called the “Nationalist Movement”. For 10-years,
this individual’s racial attacks became part of the daily work routine, and no
matter how many complaints were filed with Alyeska’s HR - nothing ever came
about it until this individual was targeted as a person-of-interest that was
handing out information to Charles Hamel and became part of the Wakenhut
“Sting” Operation. You would have had to work in Valdez(80 to 90) to get an
understanding of the “hate” this one individual could administer, the
face-to-face profanity towards workers a different skin color and blatantly get
away with it. He continued his romance with “hate” on-the-job because he was
getting away with it. Every Terminal Superintendent from Westerheid to Henman
to Boling to Howitt to ODonnell knew this individual’s MO in racism, yet it
would take 10-years for Alyeska to finally terminate his hatred. It was one of
the reasons we strove to Unionize back in the early 80s, our concerns went
unanswered. If you are ever board in retirement, the DOL rendered a report that
highlights what this individual got away with, and the Administrative Law Judge
dumfounded how and why this individual remained on the job for so long with a long
history of racism towards other workers. Just GOOGLE Robert Scott v. Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company(DOL Case No. 92-TSC-2). Look, things were not perfect
in Alyeska, sounded good, looked good but deep down inside a mindset that
allowed some things to go under the radar at the expense of another’s
righteousness - and that is why I am using my retirement time to protest in the
BLM movement, I saw it back then, I felt it back then and the same feeling
again today. Take care.
~~~~~
The
following are excerpts from the Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Tureck’s “final
decision” with respect to the DOL case highlighted in the above message:
“Scott's history of employment at Alyeska was
such that it is remarkable he still was employed at the time the Wackenhut
investigation began. Either Alyeska was an extremely beneficent
employer or plant operators are extremely difficult to replace in Valdez,
Alaska.”
“Alyeska produced a considerable amount of
testimony regarding a new personnel policy allegedly introduced at the behest
of Hermiller through which the company would impose tougher
discipline on its employees, as a way of explaining why Scott was
terminated in 1990 but not previously. However, this testimony was extremely
self-serving, and I give it little weight. Besides, I cannot conceive of any
personnel policy, no matter how lenient, that could explain why Scott was
not terminated prior to 1990; nor would it have been necessary to come up with
a harsher policy to justify terminating him following the incidents which
occurred in the summer of 1990.”
On September 26, 1983, Larry Planje, requested that Scott be
terminated. Even at that early date he noted Scott's “long history of problems”
and that “all attempts to work these out have failed. In what apparently was an
endorsement of this recommendation, “Earl” (probably E.E. Boling, to whom
Planje's memo was addressed) stated:
“Obviously, this is a hopeless case, I think we are remiss if
we don't dump this Clown.” There is no indication in the record of why Scott was
not terminated at that time.
Scott was known by his co-workers to be a member of a
white supremacist group. He frequently used the word “nigger” in conversation,
and was unapologetic about it.
…investigation included interviews with 11 technicians as well
as Scott. Anderson then contacted Human Resources in Anchorage to get
Scott's file. He was sent a three-page summary of Scott's employment record,
which he described as the most extensive record of employee misconduct he had
ever seen. He could not understand why Scott was still on Alyeska's
payroll. Anderson described the results of his investigation as follows:
“I concluded after the interviews and putting all
the material together that in fact Mr. Scott had made racial
remarks, that he knew what he was doing, and that in looking at the overall,
record it was clear to me that Mr. Scott's conduct was not appropriate and had
not been appropriate for years, that he had been warned that his conduct
was not appropriate and had been given every opportunity to bring that conduct
into acceptable limits. For Some reason, he chose not to do that.”
Polasek and Howitt, both of whom either knew Scott personally
or knew of him from earlier experiences. There is no allegation that Scott was
ever disciplined by Alyeska in regard to complaints. There is much
evidence in the record that Scott has no concern whatsoever for
safety and the environment.
“I found Hermiller's testimony at the hearing to be
less than candid. He was a contentious witness, and his testimony often gave
the impression that he was holding back or not giving complete answers to
questions. Frequently, his testimony appeared self-serving. As the person who
authorized the Wackenhut investigation, which was roundly criticized by the
members of the Owners Committee, he has a personal as well as a corporate
interest in this hearing. I have weighed his testimony accordingly.”
Howitt was the Valdez Terminal Manager when Scott was
suspended first in 1985 and then in 1988, and personally signed Scott's 1985
suspension letter.
~~~~~
Not my words above from the court, but what a Federal
Administrative Law Judge found, and when I tried to bring this to the “Message
Forum” because some members thought the “Black Lives Matter” movement was an “Anarchist”
movement, no wonder we are in dire straits again today as the “filth” and “disrespect”
lives on, even in retirement like it was from the “Filth Floor of Bragaw”!
