CHUGACH CONSUMERS COMMENT - This is the "Gettysburg Address" against hot stick featherbedding and the IBEW Union's insulated rubber glove ban.  It is one of the finest and most effective comment letters of all time.   [same in pdf format]

Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, Inc.
4831 Eagle Street 
Anchorage, Alaska   99503-7497
(907) 561-1818      (907) 561-2388 FAX

May 16, 1995

Tom Cashen, Commissioner 
Alaska Department of Labor
P.O. Box 21149 
Juneau, Alaska  99802-1149

Commissioner,

Good to see you are enjoying your role in the Knowles Administration. I have been following the rubber gloving issue being pressed by Meera Kohler.

You know she is right, Tom. The facts are clearly on her side. Rubber gloving is a perfectly safe and accepted industry practice. There is no basis, other than greed, to force Alaska's electric power industry to use stone age work practices.

We ask that you reconsider the ill advised proposed prohibition of rubber gloving.  Such a backwards move would be bad for the industry and its workers.  Allowing this issue to escalate into the courts is not necessary or in anyone's best interests.

Sincerely,
   Charlie
Charles Y. Walls 
General Manager

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