EXXON Valdez - Alyeska Responds

March 24^th 1989 - The Alyeska 5^th Floor Bragaw Response Video -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsF_QkMCpQ

The Alyeska HR CUNTS

The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Legacy = The 5th Floor Bragaw with its executive enema men and the HR CUNTS in tow! I guess one could say the "Filth Floor Bragaw" fits. And NOT to forget that “legacy” allowed for the EXXON Valdez “Wreck”. 

Vocal Union Supporter = My MO

Yes, I was a “Vocal Union Supporter” while assigned to the Valdez Marine Terminal in the 70s through mid-80s, and that “screaming out loud” my dissatisfaction can’t get no satisfaction, well best said through Bob Dylan;

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Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
Rip down all hate, I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull I dreamed

And the Alyeska “mental mindset” of the 5^th Floor Bragaw Street Enema Boys that hated that disposition in leaky diapers, the fact that a “Union” was crawling up George Nelson’s ass. So what to do, throw all available resources at ripping down that “Made in America” Union drive that was trying to fight that on-the-job “half-wracked prejudice” fostered by a “white supremist” movement and trying to STOP drunk tanker crews from…what happens when you take your eye off the problems! And Alyeska will be forever remembered as the company that ruined Prince William’s Sound - still today with stubborn signs of lingering crude oil! Not something to be proud of, forever tarnished. As I travel the nation sea to shining sea, mention Alyeska and the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline with other true-grit Americans enjoying retirement what did you do for a living, people associate that company with the EXXON Valdez “wreck” on Bligh Reef. And yes, had we been successful in that “Union”, that sad morning of March 24 in 1989 would have been “business as usual” as by then we would have already STOPPED the recklessness of the Filth Floor Bragaw Enema Boys! The Cowitts know who I am talking about! Just a reminder as you enjoy that Uncle Al “golden poop chute” haggis!

It Ain’t Over ‘Till the FAT ALEXa Sings…or the Pipeline Raven Farts!

“I have a Dream” & “Free at Last, Free at Last” the famous words of Martin Luther King Jr…it resonates today more then ever before. And not only for the Black-Lives-Matter “monument” taking over the Confederate “statues of shame” sea to shining sea as this courageous “movement” should, but for my own “I have a Dream”. That I would finally be exonerated by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company “my dedication as a valued employer” once-upon-a-time, before getting “blacklisted” for caring - about safety and trying my best at doing things right in conflict with a reckless management mindset that went pissed off at “whistleblowers” and pleased off with “Shoot the Messenger”. Even if that “Messenger” was trying to WARN the Valdez management that drunk tanker captains at the helm of a 214861 DWT steel hull filled with 1480000-barrels of hazardous cargo - like North Slope Crude Oil - well it don’t mix! I mean Bligh Reef ain’t no longer safe for shorebirds with that kind of dereliction the conviction to environmental responsibility! Like with Little Mara-Lago’s under-aged girls forced to have sex with Prince Andrew, well Prince William was also under duress this brazen statutory rape by drunken pirates of the Alaskan oil trade. And no doubt about it, even though Alyeska did not have control of the gas pedal on Joe Hazelwood’s EXXON Valdez on a “joy ride” of doom in 1989, the company controlled the “clutch” in that 1000-foot “causeway” that was Captain Joe’s escape route to destruction. Yes, Joe could have and should have been arrested before he set foot on that tanker back in March of 1989, by Alyeska’s very own security detail denying access then EXXON would say “Joe You’re Fired”. But back then complacency ruled Alyeska’s wherewithal, not only with environmental risks as “bigotry” was also a well-established trait the company could not “fix”, like that was also condoned so survived.  I spoke up upon all things considered in “ugliness” and paid for it dearly my career cut short. And the only reason I bring up the famous wreck, well in retirement and traveling and telling other retirees what I did for a living, mention the pipeline and Valdez, guilty by association like an automatic Peyronies.

But today I feel “Exonerated”, so who cares about that Reef that still feels the dire-straits effect of crude oil haphazardly dumped overboard and who cares about the effect of “racism” on-the-job, as many of those individuals that had to put up with it - RIP! Some lost, some…today I am the winner! And so I proclaim, “Free at Last, Free at Last” as in a recent correspondence from Betsy Haines as Uncle’ Al’s Vice President of “Operations and Maintenance” in mouthpiece, in a follow up correspondence wherein I questioned as to why Alyeska was facing stiff penalties from the Department of Labor due numerous “Serious” OSHA violations, Betsy thanked me!  A sincere thanks, my exoneration for still being concerned about worker safety with her words not mine in effect; “and I’m glad you are still concerned with the safe operation of TAPS”. Wow, it only took how many years, as once “blacklisted” on the Alaska oil scene, work becomes tough. After being targeted as a “Vocal Rebel Rabble-Rouser” in voicing out loud the derelictions listed above in Valdez, the only reason I was able to sustain continued employment in Alaska’s “Big Oil” was the fact I had superiority commendations from the “Owner Company”, for my due diligence in dedication to doing things right, for my own well-being and that of my fellow workers. OK, at last count this “glad” in “Exoneration” some 30-years by now in overdue. OK, let me regurgitate all about this “current” recklessness that Betsy denies with Alyeska already contesting the DOL, on what the investigator inspectors of the OSHA under DOL under Antonin Scalia’s son - maybe Trump cares about the workers. But the defense to this DOL mandated “Penalty” due OSHA violations, that being initiated by Alyeska in contest what was found during an “un-scheduled” visit, well the fact this company is now highlighted for such abuse on the DOL web-site designed for “Transparency” and titled “Enforcement Cases with Initial Penalties of $40000 or Above”( https://www.osha.gov/enforcement/toppenalties/bystate), aka “GUILITY” it speaks for itself. And with Alyeska it reeks of déjà vu all over again and I fear the career of the “Whistleblower” - LOOK OUT is my sentiment!

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On 12/4/2019, the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration, through its integrated State of Alaska field office(AKOSH), initiated an “un-announced inspection” at the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company’s “Valdez(Alaska) Marine Terminal”. Alyeska is responsible for the “Operation & Maintenance” of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska-Pipeline. It appears from the DOL record that this “inspection” was based on a “whistle-blower” complaint, most likely due what was perceived as on-the-job OSHA violations. And the way things are supposed to work within the rank and file with Alyeska including contractors, a concern over safety is supposed to stay a local issue and only when stubbornness rules, then one is allowed to move concerns up the “poop chutes and sleazy ladders”…as it is a game! Look, if the local can’t fix it the reason they don’t want to fix it, so YES it becomes a game.

Now following this “un-announced inspection” and what was witnessed by the DOL/OSHA/AKOSH inspectors, on 5/26/2020 the DOL/OSHA “Enforcement” sector levied a penalty of $404602 against Alyeska for 31 “Serious” violations along with extended penalties in the amount of $311313 culminating from an additional 22 “Serious” safety violations through contractor(s) obligation in remission at the Valdez facility/site. In total, you can perform the simple addition, but what is more alarming then $money$ for fines is the penalty citations for Alyeska and its contractors, accounting for 306 “Safety Violation Instances” and 993 “Worker Exposures” consistent with the violations acknowledged during the inspection. As witnessed and recorded at the time of the initial inspection, the violations ranged from the risk of “excessive noise” to exposure to “highly explosive & highly hazardous chemicals” to “cancer causing ceramic refractory fibers” present and many instances of BETX/M(Benzene-Ethylene-Toluene-Xylene and M-phthalodinitrile) exposure, risks levels in excess allowed by the “lawman” in protection of workers engaged in the pipeline activities. It makes one sick just to fathom what these workers were subject to, like slave labor! It is noted that BETX is an age old worker exposure problem for Alyeska that dates back since inception of the pipeline in operation to transport “crude oil”. An analysis of the complaint and inspection result is very disturbing, as during the 80s through the 90s, I was a worker at the “Terminal” that witnessed the same type and kind of on-the-job safety concerns. Like in that past, again it appears a dereliction the conviction to make sure the work environment is safe and work allowed to be performed safely and NEVER placing the workers in harm’s way at any expense, just do it right. But when a complaint has to be filed for outside interference in help, that means someone is not listening and the obligation for local oversight is missing-in-action, and thus it requires that “unwanted” outside interference to terminate the abuse. Sad, that this was already a war fought by dedicated employees, many that found that career with the “Pipeline People” sabotaged by an ugly management style that excelled in a message from the top of a “Shoot the Messenger” mandate, instead of exhausting resources to “fix” the safety problems. Look, when the local management did not take our concern about the drunk tanker crews seriously, we decided our only hope to STOP a wreck recking the Sound, was to “Unionize”. And instead of taking our concerns to heart, resources were then directed to fight that “Union” and Joe had his heyday joy riding. So it appears déjà vu all over again, as to see this sizable “penalty” for so many “Serious” violations so many workers possibly exposed, it begs at what the hell is going on at the helm?

Once upon a time the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company was known as the “Best of the Best”. I was part of that effort, but it was a short-lived victory as deep down inside…well the reason drunk tanker captains get away with heinous crimes on the high seas and “white supremist” allowed to hock their racism goods on-the-job for way too long, like it was condoned. Only in “laughter is the best medicine” does Alyeska find a justifiable existence as a reputable company, in my book my experiences. But no doubt that Alyeska in the category of the “Best of the Best”, it went out the window in abandonment many years ago and once gone, it never returned. No matter how many “fluff & feather” awards the company was able to squander over the years…let me be more specific why that company deserves no accolades for anything in a “Best of the Best” category as this most recent “Penalty” by the DOL is testament, that it required an “outside interference”. But Alyeska will use its political stroke to demand retribution, same old story! So as a gage, watch what happens to those “penalties”! And yes Betsy, I always cared about worker safety and still do, does anybody else? But I don’t get paid for caring!

And to all the retired “Cowitts” that dishonored worker loyalty and honored instead a commitment to “kiss everything that smells of an asshole 800-miles long a trail of tears who cares” and placed that “golden parachute” obligation “I can take it with me” over the righteousness of the workers back in the 80s and 90s, remember that the “blood” of the EXXON Valdez is on your hands. And the stench of the wreck still lingers the shore-lines of Prince William Sound - no different then the lingering  filth of a Jeffrey Epstein finger fucking! Free at Last? Not this guy, take your accolades and shove it as when I said I ain’t working here no more, I meant it! And words od wisdom and a warning to that “whistleblower”…you did what was necessary, but watch your back!

The Pipeline Raven has farted!

Dear Honorable Lisa Murkowski(R-Alaska)

Dear Honorable Lisa Murkowski(R-Alaska);

On 5/26/20 the Department of Labor/OSHA Enforcement cited the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company as “Operator” of the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline for “31 Serious OSHA Violations”, in calling out on-the-job worker exposure to BETX and asbestos and “Other” derelictions in regulated activities. And following its enforcement investigation, Eugene Scalia’s DOL levied a penalty of $404602, wherein a majority of the violations found the “maximum penalty” applied, which is based on the gravity/seriousness of the individual violations. It appears this DOL/OSHA inquiry came about by a “complaint” from a concerned worker at the Valdez Marine Terminal. And because of the DOL/OSHA “transparency” to WARN the public of entities that engage in egregious violations, the APSC was listed on the DOL site for “Enforcement Cases with Initial Penalties of $40,000 or Above”. At the same time, 4 other contractors at the Alyeska Valdez facility faced similar “penalties”(26 Serious/$269633 fine) and in total the combined penalty/fine approaches ¾ of a million dollars - in this day and age it is bad business such blatant disregard “worker safety” in violation! This DOL report finds the same type of violations that “whistleblowers” complained about in the past and then found themselves targeted in a “Shoot the Messenger” verdict and here we are déjà vu once again, especially with the cancer causing “BETX” concerns in “worker exposure”. What is also of grave concern, the investigative reporting of violations in “instances and worker exposures”! It appears from the reports made public, that “crews” were exposed, not just a few individuals in lab coats. This should not be happening with Alyeska after so many years in operation and heavily regulated by outside oversight, supposedly! It appears that it is more of the same with Alyeska not learning from past mistakes and maybe the management thought that when Scalia was named as Donald Trump’s appointee to the DOL that all “oversight” would end or loosen up, as the Governor of Alaska is “pro-business pro-oil” and that is when “safety” goes by the wayside - when “oversight” is remiss in its duties due political pressures. What else has allowed this to happen, I reiterate “again”. Something has gone drastically wrong with Alyeska’s management with respect to “worker safety” and the influence that “management mindset” held upon its contractors to perform within the intent of the law in regulation of “worker safety”. Like in an “our way or the highway” for the contractors as they should know better to not deviate from responsibilities, mostly Native Alaskan entities under such pressure. I believe it may be time once again for Congress to get involved, with “oversight hearings” as when we see this kind of malfeasance happening all over again, is another EXXON Valdez on the horizon?  So, I request that as the senior U.S. Senator for Alaska, it is your due diligence duty to get to the bottom of this latest  DOL Enforcement “mess” at Alyeska, as it seems to be once again worker safety in dereliction in question. Please remember that when this happened back in the 80s and 90s, the workers in concern had to resort to outside help because of no sincere interest from Alaska’s very own delegation - specifically Don Young and his “beanie cap” in disgrace the merits of Congress. Outside interference is not needed, but someone in authority in representation needs to “prioritize” this latest dereliction by the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company its conviction upon worker safety, as I am sure an expanded investigation would find the same safety concerns all along that 800-miles of pipe, not just a localized concern in Valdez. Sincerely submitted, S. Pam McGee - AMERICAN PATRIOT

Lipstick on a Pipeline PIG Lip Service Leadership in Penalty Box

The Alyeska Pipeline "Leadership" Team in the DOL/OSHA "Penalty Box"...so what else is NEW! WOW, maybe BETX is a fix for the Covid!

More Cowitt Cowbell Please!

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company's Valdez Operations faces $715,915.00 DOL Penalty, for worker exposure to BETX/BEMX and asbestos and...When I first received a subscriber’s “WARNING of DOL Violation Detail” courtesy the United States Department of Labor, well with what comes from the Trump Turmoil Administration I thought it was a late day April Fool’s joke - but it is July 4^th! So the fake left can no longer say Trump has done nothing as Commander-in-Relief, as to slap the Alyeska Pipeline Servitude Company with a “humongous” $fine$ when Don Young remains on the pedestal as the oldest living House of Nancy artifact since B.C., it is something theft defying in this day and age of “what worker rights” and well…an Hysterical Paroxysm! Maybe déjà vu with the 5^th Floor Bragaw Street mentality this “humongous” VIOLATION laughing matter orgasm. OK that scene of the crime spree was vacated a long time ago but hysteria repeats itself as in the “widow’s disease”, so maybe Alaska should prepare itself for another EXXON Valdez and while at it in preparedness another round of the Barrett “White Supremist” bowel influence days completes the repeat. Hysteria hysterectomy as it looks like Alyeska and its spit-slime image is already celebrating its 50-Anniversity! Wow with “Lions and Tigers and Bears”. Correction: With “Benzene and Toluene and Xylene” along with the noise makers for the party goers and asbestos hazards as party favors. As like in the days of old, Alyeska once again found itself the target for “hazardous duty preoccupation” as Scalia’s Department of Labor has “cited” the “I Don’t Care Do U”…for real, under a Trump appointee that is known for frequenting the WWV stage to break faces, well looks like good ‘ol Uncle Al is back at its old ways and means “asleep at the wheel”. See Eugene Scalia cited the “Best of the Best Pipeline People” with…drum roll please, 43 violations wherein 38 characterized as “SERIOUS” and garnishing the “maximum” fine allowed under the Federal Government’s “Hazardous Worksites” monitoring program. We never saw this kind of policing oversight, not under Bush or Obama the tides they are a changin’. Looks like “Great Lip-service Leadership” once again at Alyeska, maybe the executives should move back to Bragaw - might be easier hiding the “Truth” as an excuse. But what I find revealing at the same time over concerning this $400000 penalty and as advertised on the DOL site for “penalties greater the $40k” as a way to signal out the industry abusers in transparency, wherein Alyeska was not cited any dereliction to protect the workers for at least the last 5-years? What asbestos, because all the years I worked at Alyeska down yonder end-of-the-line Valdez, we were told there was no “asbestos” on the jobsite? Maybe it is time for some “class-act action” to hell with the Covid my coughing is from asbestosis or for real “refractory ceramics”! That Centerpoint religious leadership should be ashamed that after all these years it is still…some more of the same the George Mucous Nelson way or the highway just more Cowitt Cowbell. RIP Ray Marcy!

The Barrett White Supremist Influence

As the “Lead Technician” for the I&E Department at the Valdez Marine Terminal, it was my duty to make sure the work-crew was never placed in harm’s way. Those that worked the “pipeline” more than likely had no idea the “complexity” of the “Terminal” in comparison to a typical “pumping station” and since I worked both the “Beginning & End” of the line, I know the difference. While in Valdez, for most of my honorable career that found “Letters of Commendation” from the “Owner Company”, it was under the wings of Lynn McArthur - need I say more this man the epitome and the Alyeska “legacy” of that “Best of the Best”. Until he was taken down for standing up for worker “rights”. There existed a whole lot of management dereliction in duty in Valdez for way too long not a one-off situation. At least so on the subject of “conviction” and it appeared there was a “Don’t give a shat” management style attitude that was promoted from the top, when George Mucous Nelson was at the helm - the 5^th Floor of Bragaw and his HR whores. But in Valdez, regardless of that executive Filth Floor Bragaw hand-me-down attitude “my shat don’t stink”, we had a very important job to do and we did it to the best of our ability. Our commitment, even when our efforts compromised, we helped the pipeline throughput meet the goals in excellence. And not to forget the weather attribute the workers in Valdez had to contend with, as unlike the pipeline and pump stations, a majority of the control system’s equipment was situated “outside” in the elements and it was not unusual in efforts to get to a pressure transmitter, it required a snow shovel. But the weather was something we could adjust to and manage our activities safely, just dress for the occasion as there came days wherein for that 12-hour shift it meant at least 10-hours out in the cold and wet. And work at the loading berths, always cold as there came the influence of the open water. That duffle-bag of winter gear given out at Basic Training when hired, always used in Valdez and on the pipeline, it remained in the locker. But what was a challenge we could not get used to and really not part of the job, day-in and day-out putting up with inebriated crewmen returning from the Pipeline Club after an all-night bender. Funny, that the “Yellow Cab” with a crew of un-able bodied seamen could get through the Dayville Road “Security Gate” easier then when Nelson showed up - it’s all about attitude! And we also had to contend with the Barrett “White Supremacy” nationalist movement - that was being shoved down our throats on-the-job and off-the-job, unabated it seemed. Look, under-the-influence was one thing and any confrontations at the berths with unruly crewmen quickly halted by the showing of a Rigid-18” pipe wrench, well that “White Supremist” movement in our face was not so easy to put aside and no matter how much friction this Barrett “White Supremist” movement disrupted our peace and quiet in tranquility we are not interested in “bigotry”, it appeared the local Valdez-Alyeska management was frightened away from stepping up to the plate and stopping it. So we got sick and tired of the Barrett literature that was handed out on-the-job like candy, sometimes at “plant wide safety meetings” with wording to the effect; “those who were once citizens to Puerto Rico, Mexico, Israel, the Orient, and Africa, non-whites especially blacks, were inferior. The Negro race... possess[es] no creativity of its own [and] pulls the vitality away from civilization. We advocate sterilization and abortions of the "unfit”(Barrett 1982). Stuff re-copied, stuff that reeked in Neo-Nazism copied on Alyeska “copy machines” on company time. For real, one time I was called to the Thermal Oxidizers because of “black smoke” coming out of the stacks, looked great against the serene snow-covered mountains surrounding the “Terminal”. Only to find the control room abandoned by the “white supremist” lead operator busy at the copy machine in the OMS office and try to convince this “bigot” his stuff was out-of-control? Best get used to the “N” word and “F” word - where’s the soap! And IMAGINE receiving a “Hot Work Permit” to work on the “Oxidizer” that was approved with a swastika stamp? The reason we finally went fed up and when McArthur said he gave it all he had to get management to fix these problems, it was then that we decided our only protection was to “Unionize”. And we understood the repercussion with that our own “movement” to fight the “bigotry” and drunks, but we were desperate for help, even if it meant interference from “outsiders”. And when we decided it time for a concerted effort to be represented on-the-job, it wasn’t about the pay and benefits but sick and tired of the “bigotry” and instead of Alyeska hearing out our cries and heeding a warning, they put up resources to fight our plight which meant the Barrett movement continued on as did the drunk tanker crews get more brazen. Then came the EXXON Valdez “wreck”, could have should have been avoided as the tanker crew drinking was well known about - as Valdez was a small town as was the Barrett “White Supremacy” never timely addressed, as it started in 1979 and was not “killed” until 1989. Yes, 10-years after! Alyeska was very generous to the Valdez community, especially with things like a kid “Halloween Party” open to Alyeska workers and anybody needing something to do with kids, but when the kid of the Alyeska manager thought a KKK hood was a costume for the occasion? And it was just more of the same sentiment “boys will be boys” and for me? “You can take this job and shove it”…I tried moving North, to get away from the “bigotry” only to find more problems, like “nepotism”and a cut-throat management style…so “I ain’t working here no more”! IMAGINE, Corporate Responsibility that sounded great when the Filth Floor Bragaw executives showed up at the Anchorage Rotary Club “luncheon” when for 10-years drunks roamed the “Terminal” harassing the dedicated workers as did the Barrett “Bigotry” survive a reign of terror in “harassment”. So much for a “Code of Conduct”, especially the Chapter on “Shoot the Messenger”!

Alyeska - Abusive To Women?

Like its own “Trail of Tears”! So why would the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company’s 5^th Floor Bragaw - in cahoots the cohorts in shame Human Resources of mostly white women - allow for a work environment to exist for well over 10-years wherein it was documented in a court testimony as “disdainful and contemptuous, vulgar and deliberately abusive to women”? Yes without a plea bargain, a “Management Mindset” guilty by association by inaction so acceptance, thus allowing a well-known “white supremist” to remain on the payroll with a documented history acknowledged by “a man delighted in harassing co-workers and in fomenting dissent”. Of record a “disciplinary history while at Alyeska unparalleled”(252 pages of deficiencies and HR “Code of Conduct” violations), characterized as blatant out-loud in-your-face confrontations “abusive to women” on-the-job, especially if that women was an American/Alaskan Native and wherein that “abuse language” contained the “N” word. So I ask, why did this “white supremist” that “abused women” on-the-job and well known to Alyeska Executives and HR, let it go on for so long? Well it is the same question that a Federal Law Judge well versed in the “law of the land” also asked. We are still waiting for an answer!

Hermiller’s “PROFS” File Dump

I was the recipient a copy of James B. Hermiller’s “PROFS” correspondences when he served as the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company’s CEO, in the early 1990’s timeframe. It covers the same timeframe the Wackenhut “SPY” operation was sanctioned by Hermiller, the hiring of a 3^rd party entity to “SPY” on the workers. Of course some of us were already well aware of the Wellington “snitches” in the organization running to Alyeska’s HR and ratting out in efforts to stay in good grace with the Filth Floor of Bragaw, so as to advance their standing in the organization - through promotions up the chain in Alyeska’s poop chutes and greasy ladders game. I did not ask for such this Hermiller “PROFS” file dump, held no effort in the “breakin” of the supposedly “Secure E-mail Server”. And no doubt, I could embarrass the hell out of a majority of the Alyeska management ranks serving under James B. Hermiller in the 1989 through 1991 timeframe, when that Wackenhut “Spy” operation was taking root within the rank and file workforce. The 5^th Floor of Bragaw spied on the workers, get the point! Yes, I have the goods that could publicly embarrass those that roamed the halls of the 5^th Floor of Bragaw, including Human Resources and those in control of the Pipeline and Valdez Marine Terminal. I have the Hermiller “file” of “Profs” correspondences including the “Deleted” files, so Alyeska’s very own legal team has no idea what I have at my disposal. But I also realize that Alyeska employs some of the craftiest lawyers and law-firms, and I am not in the mood for “slander or defamation” lawsuits filed against me as I learned in the past that even the judges that hear cases brought by 3^rd party law-firms protecting “Big Alaskan Oil” have a backdoor connection to that legal system - for “dismissals”. See, the publication of that Hermiller “dump” would reveal interesting things and since Alyeska was a small organization, even if the names went redacted many within the organization past and present could make heads and tails the connection those individuals thought to honor a “trust me” relationship. But one day, and maybe soon I will be at ease to start publishing what I have and know, so stay tuned to this site - as it will mean laughter still the “best of the best” medicine! For real, a Pipeline “Big Wig” complained about the station technicians thefting the TP from the breakroom “crapper” when he showed up? Gives stink finger a southern bible stench! For sure, it is amazing stuff!

Dear Jimmy Dearmore

Dear Jimmy Dearmore;

Note: The following message was published on or about June 24^th 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 1^st 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.

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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.

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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”!

Alyeska's Pride in Prejudice(Continued)

To begin with, Happy Juneteenth Day. Well, well, prejudice does go with the “Territory”. OK, by the 70s it was some tough going 11-years in the making since Alaska last enjoyed that “Territory” position, as by then a bonafide “State of the Union” status, a state with its own flag. Not to forget the Jack Marler days of “No Taxation without Representation” no longer a valid 1030 write-off option! Yes rough going for the first few years when trying to wean away from Uncle Sam’s welfare addiction, until ARCO hit “paydirt” then that “We’re In” of 1959 held new meaning heard all the way to the “Capitol”. With 4200-miles away momentum, and then on through those Halls of Congress and eventually the legislation that allowed for the building of an “Alaska Pipeline” wrought with controversy from environmental issues to Native Alaskan “land claim” rights. But in some respect by then after the dust of statehood had settled, the 49er was still functioning as a “territory”, so it takes time for things to sink in. And with that way far and away from everything so far removed, so was “Equal Opportunity” oversight just a suggestion. With this “new territory” calling for citizen Kane to step up to the plate, prejudice and discrimination is probably one of the last things on the agenda to get a “fixed” position, a reckoning in the right direction as we are creatures of “habit” good to bad to good again. And with that “paydirt”, Alaska became a land of opportunity like “overnight” - for all things considered. It was like the Beverly Hillbillies on steroids “North to Alaska” this “Call to the Wild”, when people from all walks of life decided to jump ship, or bail skip, away from the restrictions of the lower-48 lifestyle and follow instincts to “Go North Young Man”. And with that, the Beaver Creek border crossing saw people from every state of the “Union” seeking out Alaska as a “new life” adventure and with that “dream” so too were past “prejudices” in baggage carried along - one of those things tough to leave it all behind. Alaska was still “lawless”, so it was anything goes and discrimination was part of the scene, still today. Look, why would a Native Alaskan company still have the “Eskimo” by its name when we can no longer use that derogatory name for an ice-cream bar? What’s good is bad and what’s bad is good - thank you Bob Dylan for Idiot Wind! But with the “Green Light” in Alaska a good place for bigots to felons to find a job, there came families from places like Macon County Georgia, when oil was first being discovered in Alaska - where southern hospitality “segregation” was so damn proud and part of the “white man culture” it was allowed through inbreeding for future generations to enjoy, wherein even the kids’ playground in downtown Macon found signs to discourage the “black folk kids” from using the see-saw or slide. And during this same time period, when a court ruled against that “segregation” wherein the Augustus Octavius Bacon park “could no longer exclude Negroes” due “racial discrimination” and man was on a roll to “equal opportunity modernization”, well the “white culture citizens” went to court and the land was given back to Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon’s heirs, who originally “left it in trust for the use of the town's white residents only”. For real, the court ruled that this “Open to Blacks” would violate the conditions of the late Senator Bacon's will and that the property, which had been operated as a “white‐only” community park, revert back to the heirs for “white only” safekeeping - it was the 70s! No doubt about it, that “carry over” in prejudices found new life in this new found friend frontier called “Alaska”, and new formed companies to help get that oil from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields did not really care yet about “prejudices” nor discrimination at the workplace - nobody of authority was watching! And mind you we do this on our own accord, it takes “oversight” still MIA in Alaska.

Alyeska surely maintained a “culture” that held roots in a “prejudice mindset”, the reason it was some 10-years before an out-of-the-closet known “White Supremist” employer was “Terminated”. Yes, 10-long years for those of us that had to endure the hardships of seeing our brothers and sisters of skin color different put up with such face-to-face abuse. In the U.S. Department of Labor’s “final verdict” of 1993 upon a lawsuit “denied” for “Wrongful Termination” by a Robert Scott, the report sounded in the “N” word a sickening tune how this individual went about his daily business, to abuse “minorities” on the job - and get away with it far too long. He was finally “fired”, and that lawsuit was deemed without merit worthless to frivolous - due his bigotry so Alyeska was off the hook for his “Termination”. But the fact his “bigotry” and use of the “N” word blatant for so many years, well Alyeska’s management promoted its survival, maybe even benefitted from it as why else would a company allow it to continue on day after day for - well like I said far too long. For real, some managers who witnessed this abuse on a daily basis, many with southern roots thought it was harmless “clowning” around…just ask the black kid summer hire! Had it not been for other workers finally enough of Mr. Bigot’s “filth” and desecration and defecation upon fellow workers a different skin color, and that “enough” meant going “Union” for a ways and means to fire “Bigotry” did the Alyeska management decide to take action. Yes, by letting this Bigot survive far too long all the while other workers filed complaints with the Alyeska HR, it was abuse condoned by the Alyeska management - as the rank and file of that management style in the late 70s and early 80s came from the south - said again to get the point across.  It wasn’t abuse in silence by this one individual, but right in front of the local management’s eyes and ears, and all we got in return was a fake laugh and no action. In that Department of Labor hearing for this Mr. Bigot Scott upon a claim of “Wrongful Termination” so denied, the Administrative Law Judge was dumfounded as to how such a “bigot” with a documented track record of “N” word abuse had remained on the job! It was the Alyeska way!

And at the time this pathetic individual was raising hell at Alyeska’s Valdez Marine Terminal and getting away with it, at the End-of-the-Line of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska-Pipeline, management “misfit-rejects” were being transferred from the pipeline. For various reasons, like being unsafe to the point other workers’ lives went compromised, sexual abuse, on-the-job alcohol abuse…the list keeps on giving. But instead of “Termination” like would happen with a normal company not so new, within the Alyeska organization there was this sensation the upper crust management was infallible because of the “bible” carried around in the back pocket, that they could do no wrong their action and only harm in inaction, so the “rejects” awarded out-to-pasture positions because the pipeline’s management was “sick”. Many of those misfits, sent to Valdez to remain quiet make no waves until “Golden Parachute Retirement” time comes around the mountain! See, just go south and keep thy mouth shut.

Some more examples shit flows downhill - or south in an Alaskan pipeline? In an “obituary” of a manager that ran the pipeline during the years of discrimination and prejudice “rampant”, a family member wrote: “Alex’s leadership at Alyeska Pipeline is regarded as 'the good years' due to his management style, guidance and support of his co-workers." Whomever wrote this epitaph, it is far from the truth NO disrespect the lard-ass six-feet under. The Pipeline People knew Alex, Fat Alex as the co-worker force preferred in disrespect and sometimes referred to as “Two Chairs”, yes a bible-thumping two-chairs in width man-about-town doing the best things so conservatively, that also excelled in “Nepotism. Look, that bull-crap about his leadership, “the good years”, only if sonny boy Chris and in the “Club”! What “good years” and only in truth if one believed “Nepotism” was good for morale, there was ZERO leadership from Fat Alex, especially in the years around the mid-80s.  Please let me elaborate as to why no such “leadership in management” existed, when Fat Alex was the “Pipeline Superintendent”. First and foremost, his son was being promoted faster then blowflies gathering on caribou dung in the heat of the Alaskan midnight sun solstice. And at that same time, this guy who had the highest technical approval rating 8-years in a row, well because of my “vocal” Union activities in Valdez I was being shown the door. That son of “Two-Chairs” and myself, we started working for the company at the same time. See, I was a known and labeled as a vocal “Union” supporter, engaging such interest in efforts to get rid of the bigots and drunk tanker crews that were getting away with “murder” because Alyeska’s management held out with a “boys will be boys” attitude in inaction, so I was being targeted for giving a “hoot”. Yes, bigots and drunks roaming about the Valdez Terminal having a heyday. And it was no different up and down the pipeline, according to reliable sources. But I was a valued added employee that Alyeska couldn’t just “Terminate” - as I held the blessing from the Owner Company. See, Alyeska was a “Fake” like company, it was a consortium of the “Big Oil” players in Alaska - like British Petroleum and SOHIO and ARCO, very powerful companies to say the least and designed as an entity that could thwart off any “anti-trust” litigation interest from outside interference. So Alyeska was a cover, a convenient front. That “added value” I boast, with letters of accommodation from the Owner Company representatives, it offered some semblance of protection, for a time being. And I was also considered an expert in “Custody Transfer” by the ARCO Measurement Auditors while I was assigned to Valdez. Custody what? It is the technical term for accurate measurement of the oil for “ownership right” consistent with the measurement motto by the Owner Company; “If you can’t measure it don’t pump it.” So the Number One priority for Alyeska as “Operator” of the Trans-Alaska-Pipeline was in the “measurement accuracy” for accounting purposes, which besides the $money$ aspect of the “Black Gold”, that “accuracy” was part of the pipeline wide “Leak Detection” criteria - a condition to operate. Without a “Leak Detection” system in good health, the State of Alaska “Permit to Operate” said shut it down! And when the “Custody Transfer” systems at Pump Station 1 were found to be “fudged” and out-of-control while under the responsibility of Fat Alex, well the “Owner Company” auditors said get it fixed. Now since the executive seat warmers within the Alyeska organization were usually reserved for “Owner Company Loanees”, someone on the 5^th Floor of Bragaw said get another department to take over the pipeline’s measurement mess, and that was a black eye for the Fat Man and the “Custody Transfer” was soon under the auspices of a non-Pipeline department - which was bad for Fat Alex, as for once a piece of the pipeline was out of his domain “bible thumping” control which he despised. And I found a new home up at Pump Station 1, taking care of what Alex failed at. I was hated by the local Peacock management, like another kind of discrimination by Alex and his cohort in shame managers. But I took the challenge and in a few months things were straightened out, the “Owner Company” once again content they were getting their money’s worth in oil. But Alyeska was using me and it would only be a matter of time as “once a Union supporter always a Union supporter” and I was being spied on, by a “snitch” that had a front row seat with Alyeska’s Human resources - to monitor my “Union” affiliation and attempts to continue to “unionize” the pipeline workers.

And soon after all was well with the “Custody Transfer”, Alex wanted it back and the only way that would happen or could happen with the Owner Company blessings, if I was to transfer from the SCADA to the Pipeline, to become one of Fat Alex’s whores. I refused, then it was forced upon me so “Take this job and shove it” was my only reward. There was no way I would work for a man that thought his son was worthy of “Daddy Dearest Nepotism” and promoted to un-deserving positions, when others more worthy and dedicated capable of accepting challenging positions in a career move bypassed.  And since the drive to “unionize” the workers due Alyeska’s front line attack against a “Union”, well the bigots and drunks continued to run rampant and on March 24^th in 1989, Joe Hazelwood binge parked his tanker on Bligh Reef!

And one night after midnight while I was in my bunk at the pumping station camp and somewhat sound asleep, a knock at the door! Now due my responsibilities to maintain that “Custody Transfer”, it was not unusual that I would get called out in the middle of the night to fix a problem as my position was “on call”. But when I opened the door, in a somewhat quiet camp wherein things can go without a challenge and un-noticed, it was “Double Wide Oval” in a flimsy negligee…WTF? That is what she was nicknamed by the station workers. WTF again! And when the crew change plane landed in Anchorage a few days after that event and I was met by my wife and baby, this “blimp” came by and said “thanks for the good time” and I had to explain to my wife that nothing went on. But it did not look good nor did it sound good. And I would come to find out that filing a complaint with the local management this non-affair was no different then what I had come accustomed to in Valdez - that boys will be…I mean whores will be whores!

But before signing off, Alyeska engaged in “preferential treatment” border line “discrimination” with the workers, especially the “contract workers” hired for projects. Maybe not an act identifiable as a bonafide discrimination in segregation, just the “mindset” places Alyeska in a vulnerable position that it practiced “prejudice” because it could get away with it. I was also witness to that “preference” when I was working for Siemens and because of my past affiliation with Alyeska, I was assigned to be part of the Siemens “Team” for the Alyeska Strategic Reconfiguration Project in early 2000s. After I had quit my affiliation with Alyeska as a “direct”. Now when this re-assignment came about, as I was more interested in work back east because I could spend the after work hours at Bukowski’s “Dead Writers” pub and not worry about “Double Wide Oval” whores bothering my peace and quiet, well I made damn sure I was part of the contract negotiations with Alyeska. And I made sure of two all important things. Hazardous duty pay upgrades and when at a Pump Station camp, single room status as the guys I would be working with from UK, heavy snoring was par for the course. Now when we were deployed to Pump Station 4 as the first station to get the major upgrade, I was a day behind my crew and when I showed up, they informed me that my room was in Man Camp “D”. That means the “camp” wherein screens have big holes and allows hordes of mosquitoes to follow that sounds of snoring - then a blood fest commences. See, most of my crew was from UK, the reason there came such prejudice.  The camp manager was a total douche bag, so I went along with his Fat Alex game and scarfed up the keys for my room, “D” camp and its dilapidated construction camp history, hot and dingy smelled of “fromunder” mold. This I would not put up with, so I told the crew to assemble in the shop area that was reserved for our work, we set up bunks and stayed there all night long. Why? Because we would remain on the clock until such time Alyeska abided by the contract - single room status. So it took about a week before all hell broke loose, when we gave the Alyeska project manager our time logs, as it was about to cost Alyeska an arm and a leg for this abuse upon contractors - it was  like having “Union” representation! Cha-ching! The bottom line, when a management mindset finds it is better off to use resources to go after “Union Supporters” and at the same time the bigots and drunks are allowed on the loose…

Alyeska’s Pride in Prejudice - Maggie’s Farm Revisited; My back pages, bringing it all back home.

End-of My Line!