We owe Senator Hollis French and his office

Because Donna Stark and Charlotte Emerson worked together on our benefit we have Senator Hollis French taking interest in our troubles with the Alaska Department of Labor.  There have been a number of other Representatives and Senators we went to and were able to receive no interest.  Harry Crawford displayed some interest and Johnny Ellis's office expressed a bit of interest.  So many others told me they did not know any body in our industry.  What difference does that make; if the politician is told we are in trouble and the DOL is abusing us, we should receive assistance!  They should have helped by, at least, sending us to another person who could help us.

Because of Senator Hollis, The Commissioner of Labor, Mr. Bishop, decided to direct our most ardent enemy, Grey Mitchell, Director of Standard and Safety, to have a hearing which turned out to be a teleconference which only about 30 contacts called in. That was 30 out of 4,000 Earth Haulers in Alaska.  But there was about seven non earth haulers in the conference.  Grey Mitchell sent 450 announcements to Alaska Earth Haulers and opened only 100 phone lines for call ins.

Where did the mailing list come from?  June 23, 2009 the Security Tax Division under the Alaska DOL mailed a letter about leasing trucks on Public Construction Projects and Grey Mitchell used that list is is my guess.

Charlotte Emerson said it has been 16 years that nothing has been done for the Earth Haulers and I believe it has been 23.  Grey Mitchell has been involved in every event for more than 25 years and he is still here abusing the people of Alaska!  It bothers me that a man in charge who is educated and knowledgeable about every little detail in the business is fearful of the cost of ligation to adjust a problem that places hundreds of earth haulers in poverty every year.  His actions, alone, influenced many General Contractors, truck brokers and truck owner operators to take a path of learning the details of Pamphlet 400 and "CHEAT" as much as possible because they wanted to survive.  The AK DOL was not going to enforced any laws in public construction and therefore truckers and their families could not win against such a formidable foe!

This letter was sent by Senator French to the Alaska Attorney General, Dan Sullivan July 28, 2010.

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