Women completely protected at DLSE: Lenora Lewis, Angel David, etc. didn't get suspended like that man the Denise Padres suspended for those emails!

DLSE Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet does love her women at DLSE; I mean, she really loves them!!!! Denise Padres suspends a man for two weeks for receiving & forwarding inappropriate emails, then does nothing to the women that sent him those emails! I bet that no investigations were initiated on those women because under woman-lover Angela Bradstreet, women get promoted and men get suspended!

Once these pro-woman/anti-men discovered how many discriminations laws they violated, they had that moron supervisor Jorge Gomez call the man's home (on a Thursday night) to inform him that his suspension is now one week instead of two, and that he's to serve the second week of suspension sometime before March 29th. Who had ever heard of such unprofessional conduct by Jorge Gomez? Why was this man's suspension revised, who reviewed and approved the 2-week suspension, and who decided to revise it (orally, not in writing, and at the 11th hour)? Labor Standards has no labor standards.

To sum it up, these female managers at DLSE (pretty much) violated every rule in the supervisor's handbook regarding retaliation & discrimination, but they don't care because they are untouchable-free from any sort of accountability.

DLSE employee files grievance against Deputy Chief Denise Padres, then Padres suspends employee for using emails about telework/union activities!

Is there anything Denise Padres will not bend over for? Victor Jurado off-duty? Angela Bradstreet on-duty?

Padres suspended this DLSE employee, who has had an unblemished thirty (30)+ years in state service, for two (2) weeks. Padres put this employee on the beach because telework was requested, DLSE refused it, a subsequent grievance was filed, emails were exchanged, and then WHAM! DLSE employee suspended for union activity using the state's email system.

How come DLSE cannot apply that same type of discipline with the email exchanges of Vanessa Holton and Lloyd Aubrey? Labor Standards has no labor standards: unfair, uneven, unrepentant all the time...welcome to DLSE.

Taxpayer-paid bottomless pit being used to harass & retaliate against blogger, more taxpayer waste like CMS & Robert Jones' salary...

Click pic to enlarge & read. OD legal, Victoria Bradshaw, Robert Jones, John Duncan, Angela Bradstreet: the list of taxpayer waste never ends. They will fight to the taxpayer's very last dime on this, which is not remotely near the DLSE's Mission Statement. If they spent $10,000,000+ of the taxpayer's money on that CMS abortion, you don't think they'll pay the salaries of 3 or 5 OD Legal douchebags to keep the blogger out of state service?

Robert Jones was so much of a douchebag to be rejected of his political appointment, but he was a loyal bitch (female dog), so Blondie found him a job that doesn't require senate confirmation to the tune of $125,000+ per year. You know what he does? He sits on his fat ass while the California Bear craps into his direct deposit once a month. The taxpayers are footing that freebie, and Jones has nothing to show for his 8 hours of pay for 8 hours of work...that's the grift.

The DLSE and DIR douchebags do not care about punitive damages, compensatory damages, or actual damges because it's not their money...it's the taxpayer's money. It's a bottomless pit for them to squander & waste. $100,000? Who cares! $450,000? Not mine! $10,000,000? Doesn't matter! If I steal $20 worth of gas and put it in my private car, I get fired, but if Lupe Almaraz instigates a lawsuit and loses a hundred thousand dollars of the taxpayer's money, then he's promoted to the Chair of the California Agricultural Relations Board at $125,000+ per year....government corruption and kickbacks at its finest.

DLSE did it: Blogger's been terminated by Angela Bradstreet

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet reviewed, approved, and signed the adverse action. It will be appealed to the State Personnel Board. Officially, I'm separated August 6th.

More documents to follow....stay tuned.

Manager orders employee to remove management contact information from emails so public is forced to fend for themselves...

(click pic to enlarge) - Jorge Gomez doesn't take a dump at DLSE without first asking Regional Manager Abby Calva how to proceed; the guy couldn't make independent decisions to save his life, but that's what they promote in the DLSE fertilizer factory: inept managers who are required to pass everything to their bosses for approval and a pat on the head.

Jorge cried to Lotts about DLSE case #68887 because Lotts couldn't remember an email (Lotts sent/rec'd 365+ emails for May, 2008) and Lotts was not required to forward 68887 information to Gomez.  Lotts responds by reminding Gomez that it was Gomez that ordered Lotts to remove contact information about Gomez, Calva, and Padres in his email signature, so the atty. in 68887 could have had the information had Gomez not ordered Lotts to  remove such info.  Instead, Gomez gets the information via snail mail, days later.

It's like the DLSE managers think that email is for their private use and no member of the public should be able to contact them.  These are public officers, who are available to the public from 8am to 5pm, whether it's in person, thru a fax, on the phone, or by email.  Then people wonder why I label them as "FECES."  It's because of crap like this email: DLSE management does not want the public having their contact information: that, will open the floodgates of timelines & memorialization, something very scary to inept managers.

Why doesn't the DLSE have the names, phones, faxes, & emails of specific office management, staff, and support on its website?

Jorge Gomez is the classic DLSE fall-guy, just like Lupe Almaraz, and quite possibly like Denise Padres.  Abby Calva couldn't give a rat's ass, and Angela Bradstreet barely has a handle on what's going on in the offices.  Once she starts making her managers accountable & available to the employees and employers of California, she'll see the results she wants for her career in public service.

The DLSE: sticking it up the taxpayers' butts, one email at a time...

Watch Bradstreet's and Robert Jones' confirmation hearing...Roger Miller was there (did Nakagama fly up to give him his special "hello?")

1) Go to http://www.calchannel.com/

2) Pull down WEBCAST menu or click here

3) Click "Search archive" or click here

4) Type "051508" (no quotes), click submit and wait for it to load

5) Go to: SENATE   COMMITTEE   RULES   and click watch

6) Load it up and watch!

Bradstreet's gonna get confirmed, but Robert Jones won't sit down for a month! Ouch!  They ruined him!  I don't think that butthole will get confirmed, so that LWDA dumbass Victoria Bradshaw (or that other idiot Gov. Schwarzenegger) will need to give that butthole another state paycheck that doesn't require confirmation.

What sux is that the butthole Robert Jones collected a state paycheck for almost 3 years (2 years as Acting Labor Commissioner, and 1 year as Deputy Secretary) and almost single handedly ruined labor relations, both internally and externally...all on the taxpayers back.  He grossed almost $400,000 in 3 years and systematically screwing over the working Californian while simultaneously bending over for employer special interests.

Label this one as "Don't let the doorknob hit you in the ass (no offense, Dean Fryer).

Is Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet blind? Why does she let her managers throw darts on the wall while Corrales kicks her in the ass???

Does Angela Bradstreet have the slightest clue how to fix Corrales?  Every manager throwing darts at the wall, i.e., DOING NOTHING, can start holding hearings and conferences to reduce the backlog highlighted in the Corrales decision that blamed Bradstreet.

If nothing else, it will get the slow and the stupid managers to retire early.  The last time they did a cattle call, where all managers & lawyers were tasked with holding hearings, Regional Manager Susan Nakagama called in sick for ALL THREE DAYS!  As an example, that dumb moron (Nakagama) is extremely afraid of holding hearings and of speaking/deciding on the record.  If you want her to retire, you have her hold hearings until she either retires or Corrales is fixed.  Same thing with Greg Rupp, Abigael Calva, Lauro Cons, and Eric Rood.

None of these managers do anything with their workday, but you can't fire them because of civil service rules, so instead, you just make them earn their paycheck.  The managers still get paid/collect benefits, the kick-in-the-nuts Corrales decision gets fixed, and those that don't want to hold hearings will go away...I don't see a downside to this solution.  All the deadwood floats away, the public gets served in a timely manner, and you have state workers earning their wage: 8 hours work for 8 hours pay.

If Labor Commissioner Bradstreet cannot bring conferences & hearings under control using this solution, then she is a co-conspirator in defrauding the public from its general funds by allowing state management to do nothing yet collect very high wages.

LWDA, DIRt, and DLSE deny their employees the right to telework, even though this right is written into the collective bargaining agreement

It's written into our very own employment contract: TELEWORK SHALL NOT BE UNREASONABLY DENIED. The management feces will suggest that we use the grievance procedure with the union, and the only thing that does is delay it for a year and longer as it moves along the grievance process, because the management feces needs four levels of denial before they can start laughing at their employees for having stuck the telework denial in their eye.

DIR/DLSE management does everything they can to stick it up the asses of their Deputy Labor Commissioners (DLC)s. Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet gets a beat-down with Corrales, and it's the DLCs who suffer. LWDA Deputy Secretary Robert Jones greases the palms for CMS, and it's the DLCs who suffer (not to mention the taxpayers). LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw gets a beat-down with Livadas, and it's the DLCs who suffer. DLSE's very best Jackass, Greg Rupp, becomes Acting Labor Commissioner for a day, giving him time to push through meal & rest period laws that are eventually overturned because of their illegality, and it is the DLCs who suffer (not to mention the victims/wage claimants).

This is just another day where LWDA, DIRt, and DLSE give their employees the knife in the back. Governator wants less traffic congestion, happy (e.g., productive) state employees, higher morale, so this "telework" language is built into our contract. And even though telework is also a recruiting tool for state employees, you have management feces like supervisor Jorge Gomez, Regional Manager Abigael Calva, and Deputy Chief Denise Padres doing everything they can to deny telework to their workers.

This is what's so funny about insecure, incompetent, control freak managers: they cannot manage, so they think someone siting at their desk must be working. Citizens and members of the public, both employees and employers, deserve better than the feces serving them. Management feces is old and stinky and should retire to go & rot elsewhere. For the record, my morale and productivity is directly related to management feces' denial of telework, so I could be more productive working away from my desk, but the management feces wants me roting at my desk, too.

We should continue working with their management tools like carbon paper and typewriters...old and outdated should be DLSE's motto.

Santa Ana Deputy Labor Commissioner refused business cards; so far, no one charged, arrested, or disciplined for taxpayer-paid CMS millions-$ thievery

These are the official fecal matters of DIR, DLSE, and LWDA: Richard Munoz, Anthony Mischel, Vanessa Holton, Steve McGinty, Angela Bradstreet, John Rea, John Duncan, Robert Roginson, Robert Jones, Victoria Bradshaw: otherwise known as the Feces 10.  Most are lackey lawyers or political appointees, thus adding to their stink.

They do nothing to the guilty parties of CMS, the taxpayer-paid, multi-million dollar abortion that's officially listed as junk.  Not one *sshole has been charged/disciplined with that fiasco, but some DLC cannot order business cards because there's no money to pay for them.  No oversight, no accountability, and certainly no responsibility taken for CMS.  Not one of Feces 10 will provide any real numbers as to the true cost of CMS to the taxpayer.  The Feces 10 will continue to do what they do best, collect their paychecks, stink up the joint, and provide a disservice to the taxpayers of California

All these fecal matters do is wait for the Golden Bear to crap into their direct deposit accounts once a month; that pretty much sums up their usefulness to the taxpayers of California.

Undocketed Santa Ana wage claims gather dust while little league dads get their work permits for kids to be movie stars: CALVA is anti-CORRALES

This is exactly what's wrong with DLSE, and it's being done right under Bradstreet's nose.

Wage claims are not processed in a timely manner because of entertainment work permits and unreasonable work permit delays due to DLSE's computer software nightmare, CMS.

The $6+ million-dollar, taxpayer-paid abortion just collects work permit data, and it takes ten times as long to issue a permit. Ten times as long: think about how much time that is.

DLSE can now brag about how many permits it issues, which is good because now you can calculate about 10 minutes for each permit, and that's how much time is being wasted on not fixing Corrales. All that time could be used to repair Corrales, but nope, we gotta issue entertainment work permits before we process wage claims, just like Abigael Calva squawked in her email.

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet can thank Regional Manager Abigael Calva for this photo, as it is a true reflection of proper and efficient service to the taxpayers.

Regional Manager Abigael Calva gives the big middle finger to Commissioner Bradstreet's desire to fix wage claims; Calva's useless to the taxpayers

On April 10th, some little league dad enters the Santa Ana office in hopes of getting an Entertainment Work Permit (EWP) for his kid that wants to work in some (probably) dog food commercial. He doesn't want to wait, so he wants to cut in line and obtain his work permit before all of those who have been (effectively) standing in line in front of him. DLC Jorge Martinez, of the Los Angeles office, tells him to just go down to Santa Ana and he can get the work permit for his kid. When it's explainted to the parent that Jorge Martinez cannot and does not speak on behalf of Santa Ana, the parent becomes upset. When it's further explained to the parent that EWPs are not at the top of the Labor Commissioner's priority/mission, he becomes more upset. Wage Claims are the priority for DLSE, but daddy-O doesn't care; he wants his EWP right now. Santa Ana tells him that he can leave his EWP application but will not guarantee that it will be completed to his deadline.

Very upset, he calls and cries to Abigael Calva, who then sends an email & demands that Santa Ana must issue the EWP to the little league dad ASAP. Those who are involved with processing wage claims (scheduling, docketing, etc.) must now stop what they are doing so that the EWP can be issued.

HOW CALVA'S ACTION SCREWED UP THE DLSE MISSION:
1) Abigael Calva failed to support her office by over-ruling the decision Santa Ana made, and hereby undermined Santa Ana office operations, in determining when this guy got his permit for his kid.
2) The Van Nuys DLSE section to process work permits exclusively should have been already established to handle nothing but Entertainment Work Permits, but that operational failure is still not functional; what a surprise.
3) Santa Ana's clerk, Veronica Gutierrez, quit. That leaves only one person in Santa Ana to handle wage claim processing & functions AND issuing entertainment work permits. The one clerk left at Santa Ana, MZ, is so backlogged in docketing that Abigael Calva thinks nothing of halting & impeding Corrales so that this guy can cut in line and get his permit because baby daddy needed it now.
4) DLSE has known about Veronica's resignation for months, but do you think Calva's done anything to assist in the wage claim backlog? That's Abigael Calva's responsibility, and she's done NOTHING to help Bradstreet alleviate the ills associated with Corrales. Calva is an obstruction to success; she's the reason why everything is wrong with this division. All these years of working as Regional Manager and it's more dysfunctional than ever.
5) Regional Manager Abigael Calva has failed to initiate a priority system within DLSE, yet the DLSE states that wage claims are the highest priority. Calva also failed in establishing a Policy & Procedures regarding the issuance of Entertainment Work Permits, even after communicating such policy & procedural malfeasance to her and her bosses.

Calva's a joke of a manager whose time has come. She should retire at the same time Rupp retires. She should give up her taxpayer-paid gas/car and stop using it as a commute vehicle from South Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. She should initiate a priority system that we can photocopy to the taxpayers and communicate to them what we process and in what order. She should allow us to fix Corrales and she should not stand in the way of efficient service to the taxpayers. Santa Ana office operations should not be interrupted because one individual wants a work permit for his kid, just because he couldn't apply for the permit in a timely manner and mail it like everyone else.

Disturb the asbestos during working hours, put scotch tape around the doors, and call it fixed

They have this form outside the elevator, so I made a copy and put my own notes on it, only AFTER recent events.

They don't bother telling us that the counter duty area has asbestos issues, which caused a several-day delay.

They don't bother telling us that they'll do a half-ass job removing/cleaning it during normal work hours (instead of the weekend where less people are apt to breathe the disturbed air).

They don't bother telling us what, exactly, is the extent of the asbestos contamination, yet they have the nerve to wonder why we ask the tough questions they don't want to answer.

Their behavior to their staff is the same as to the taxpayer, which I call the DLSE Mushroom Plan: feed 'em sh*t and keep them in the dark. Angela Bradstreet should discuss extensively (this practice) at her senate confirmation hearing.

Bradstreet and Duncan 2 B confirmed within the week, Jones is delayed until May (click pic to enlarge Senate Rules Committee members)

I've been told that Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet and DIRt Director John Duncan are going up for senate confirmation. If you have anything to tell the Senate Rules Committee, then you had better do it soon. Here's their contact website:

http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/newcomframeset.asp?committee=22

I have complete lack of faith in the judiciary process that the Senate Rules Committee members will not ask about CMS, her letter regarding Brinker, the judge slamming her in Corrales, and the total failure of her leadership in giving us a simple Policies & Procedures Manual for our Wage Claim Adjuducation bureau. She will be confirmed, and then the screwing really starts. She's a republican in democratic clothing, as that's what GAS wanted when he appointed her.

The comments below the Bradstreet post are the highest on record...much anger at this regime

Angela Bradstreet, Dean Fryer, Jim Culbeaux, CMS, Tony Mischel, Robert Jones, Victoria Bradshaw, Greg Rupp, Vanessa Holton, Steve McGinty, Richard Munoz, John Rea, Lupe Almaraz, Jose Millan are merely tools of a corrupt regime. These are the same people that fired Miles Locker, have attacked the blogger, pumped millions into that CMS software abortion, kept hearing officer Vicki Tamoush employed, and promoted pimped out for Hartwig decision Denise Padres from a DLC II to DLC VI (Deputy Chief).

I'm sure there are more boot-lickers, whose sole focus is never the job they're paid to do, but to suck up and get promoted to the next job, more power, more prestige, more power, more prestige.Vicki Bradshaw won the battle over meal & rest periods; her idiot boss bent over for the special interests, and they were going to win the battle permanently until the California Supreme Court stepped in.

They could easily stop fighting Miles and return him to public service, but these public servants don't do their job, they spend time targeting people. Vicki, John, Robert all wanted Miles gone, so what happened? Miles went. These public servants serve out their private vendettas using public funds and no one cares. The Bureau of State Audits (http://www.bsa.ca.gov/) doesn't do anything, the Attorney General's office won't do squat, so no one's really interested in justice.

And these people could not be any dumber. Our very own Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet wanted DLC Mary Tokar fired immediately, but someone had to tell Bradstreet that public sector is different than private sector, and there are rules. Our own Labor Commissioner didn't know how her own game is played, yet these are the morons who are appointed. Spring time is coming up; let's hope that someone prints out a couple pages of this blog to give to the senators who are in charge of her political appointment.

Angela Bradstreet: even with her IQ, JD, and bank account, is she merely a mid-level flunkie for GAS and Vicky Bradshaw?

If the DLSE wanted to pull back their action against Miles Locker, then they could. Much like a court, the prosecution can withdraw their complaint as long as it has not been decided (either by a judge or a jury). This February, the taxpayers of California celebrated their 2-year anniversary of Miles Locker being terminated from public service. What ever happened to the douchebags that fired him? Vicky Bradshaw is still employed, John Rea is on her left udder, Robert Jones is on her right udder, and Anthony Mischel is still collecting his paycheck. DIRt lead grifter lawyer Vanessa Holton is still there, ever the collective mess that she is.

Like any tool (blunt instrument), she's only guided by whoever's handling her: Susan Kennedy, Wal Mart, Boeing, etc? As far as I can tell, her bigshot law degree, her fat bank account, and her big IQ have amounted to nothing at DLSE: she's yet to decide anything on her own. Morons tell her that phone calls will fix that Corrales abortion, so she tells conference deputies to make phone calls. Morons tell her not to settle with the blogger, so she doesn't settle (and the DLSE subsequently loses in court..again). Morons tell her to support that taxpayer-paid, multi-million dollar abortion called CMS, and she does what a good ho's supposed to do: please her pimps.

I'm sure Morons are telling her not to deal with Miles Locker, but she'd be real smart not to listen to those Morons; those are the same Morons that are constantly putting her in a trick-box. Yeah, she's so smart, she can't even tell when she's getting played. This is the big difference between street smarts and book smarts. She went to Berkeley law School and she can't keep from getting played?

Here's a small list of why Angela Bradstreet should not be confirmed by the Senate as Labor Commissioner:
1) She continues to waste millions of taxpayers dollars on CMS
2) Through her two (2) page "excuse" letter about the yet-to-be-built Santa Ana safety barrier, her professional snubbing of Assembly Member Van Tran discredits this agency
3) She's a corporate shill for Brinker Restaurant Corp.
4) She (chief state labor law enforcement officer) offers biased opinions on private litigation
5) She's too incompetent to currently fix the problems identified in the Corrales lawsuit
6) She promoted Denise Padres (hearing officer of Hartwig/precedent decision on meal & rest period [penalty v. wage]) to Deputy Chief
7) She continues to protect Hearing Officer Vicki Tamoush, even after Boeing's seven (7) page complaint against Tamoush

and finally,

8) Outside of Wal Mart & Brinker, Angela Bradstreet has done nothing to improve either this agency or how it serves the employee & employer; she's a waste of taxpayer-paid public service

She doesn't deserve the job because the taxpayers of California deserve better than her. The Senate confirmation committee owes this much to the taxpayers.

Vicki Tamoush complaint, DLSE cover-up, part 1 of 3 (click pic to enlarge & print)

Thank goodness that someone from DLSE-HQ mailed this to T. Zatori in Austin, TX. It took long enough for it to finally reach its destination. There's a spy in San Francisco, and more documents to certain to arrive at the PO Box in Austin, Texas.

Regional Moron Manager Abigael Calva came to Santa Ana on Firday, 01/18/08, to chew the fat with the ladies working at the Santa Ana office. This also includes supervisor Jorge Gomez, not really a woman. She's very busy bending over for Angela Bradstreet, as it was Angela that told Abigael Calva to re-schedule this hearing.

Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet has been sitting on her lazy ass doing nothing about this complaint made against Vicki Tamoush. Read all 6 pages. They itemize, with specificity, the unprofessionalism and discourteous treatment that has plagued virtually everyone that has entered Vicki Tamoush's door. Vicki Tamoush is a fat, fat, cancer who has tarnished DLSE's professionalism and has turned Jorge Gomez into a workplace eunuch. All of this is happening under Regional Manager Abigael Calva, who will work very hard to bury it, sweep it under the rug, and pretend that nobody complained. The trouble is, the State Personnel Board terminated Robert Watson
http://www.spb.ca.gov/documents/preced/watson.pdf
for the same issues (click the link to read the .pdf file). It's time to Abigael Calva to retire, and it's time to bring Vicki Tamoush to justice. Anything less than that warrants the immediate removal of Abigael Calva and Angela Bradstreet.

Attention Angela Bradstreet: your complaint investigations are unfit & gender-biased (protect the asses of women, but send complaints about males to the DIR's Office of the Director-Legal Unit), your managers are unfit, and you need to return to private practice as you are unfit to serve the public.

03/22/08 Sunday-Los Angeles Times story on car wash workers: their plight, who investigates the car washes, and what-if any-aftermath?

The LA Times has the front-page story (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carwash23mar23,0,3592975.story) on car wash workers and their lower-than minimum wage plight; the lack of success concerning the "inspectors" among DLSE, and the overall grim picture of how the rich stay richer and the poor stay poorer. Los Angeles Times reporters Sonia Nazario (sonia.nazario@latimes.com) and Doug Smith (doug.smith@latimes.com) need to dig a little deeper. Some items that Ms. Nazario and Mr. Smith should request in their Public Records Act request to DIRt:
1) How many times California peace officer/EEEC Dir. David Dorame DDorame@dir.ca.gov has been arrested/convicted for driving under their influence, how many of those occasions involved state vehicles, and how he was able to pass his peace officer background investigation (hint: talk to Los Angeles DLSE Asst. Chief Greg Rupp GRupp@dir.ca.gov).
2) Out of all the citations issued against car wash businesses, how many citations have been paid, how many have been appealed, how many have upheld/lost their appeal, and how much money has been collected....versus what citation amounts were issued. How many car wash licenses have been revoked? How many bad car washes have been put out of business because they broke state law(s)?
3) How many "inspectors" assigned to car wash inspections receive bi-lingual (Spanish) pay by the state for speaking Spanish? How many have been trained by the state to study Spanish? It's pretty hard to ascertain violations if there's no one able to elicit/solicit labor law violations by those whose main/only language is Spanish.
4) After DLSE Deputy Chief Lupe Almaraz was found guilty (and liable) to have violated an employee's First Amendment rights, why was he immediately promoted to chair the Agricultural Labor Relations Board?
5) Why won't three DIR attorneys (John Duncan JDuncan@dir.ca.gov, Robert Roginson RRoginson@dir.ca.gov, Angela Bradstreet ABradstreet@dir.ca.gov), and one LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw Victoria.Bradshaw@labor.ca.gov ) provide details on the taxpayer-paid, multi-million dollar computer software disaster known as CMS, contracted out to Hansen/Unisys? If they don't care about the millions of taxpayer dollars (supposedly held in their fiduciary trust), then what makes anyone think that these Schwarzenegger political appointees care about a bunch of workers who cannot contribute to those in political power?

Here's the rumor heard around the water cooler: historically, there's always big investigations in DLSE Public Works/Prevailing Wage in a Democratic administration and the exact opposite in a Republican adminsitration. This current Republican government (Gov. Schwarzenegger, LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw (Victoria.Bradshaw@labor.ca.gov), Deputy Secretary Robert Jones (Robert.Jones@labor.ca.gov), former Jose Millan, DIR Director John Duncan (JDuncan@dir.ca.gov), et al) has "inspectors," who aren't fluent in Spanish, attempting to interview to Spanish workers. Sometimes such cases are closed due to no violations found.

Until Mr. Smith and Ms. Nazario have a complete understanding of the dysfunction of the DIR and DLSE, then the total picture is incomplete.

C.Lotts email asks LWDA, DIR, DLSE leaders to account for CMS. Will they bury their heads in the sand or not?

CLICK PIC TO ENLARGE.

THIS IS THE EMAIL:
I challenge all four of you GAS political appointees to completely answer the following questions:

1. How many millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent on CMS, the software program seemingly designed to only waste money in a GAS budget crunch?

2. Will any entity ever be held accountable, either administratively or in civil court, for the current and ongoing 3-year CMS failure?

3. Why is it that Mr. Roginson can send staff a recent email articulating DLSE's courtroom failures regarding meal & rest periods & ODAs as illegal precedent decisions, but our Chief Counsel cannot provide DLSE wage claim staff with a simple policy & procedures manual?

4. How many more taxpayer-paid courtroom failures must the DIR/DLSE endure until they actually issue a decision that stands up in court, or is the real DIR/DLSE tactic just to implement incompetent & inefficent regulations that have no hope of legal success?

I'm fairly certain that your response, or lack thereof, will find its way to:http://www.nolaborstandards.blogspot.com/

With the exception of Bradshaw, all of you hold law degrees, so consider this email as an official whistleblower communication. I want those that approved of such wasteful CMS funding identified and disciplined, or you can immediately make CMS work. I don't care which comes first, but try halting the excuses, the delays, and the disinformation; this will go towards credibility.

I would also suggect that Mr. Roginson begin with small victories, like developing a policy & procedures manual for DLSE wage claim staff, before Commissioner Bradstreet loses another & subsequent Corrales-type failure.

C. Lotts sends this email to the big-brain lawyers and to Vick Bradshaw, asking them to explain the money thrown at CMS and why no one has been held accountable.

The email was cc'd to Molly Selvin at the Los Angeles Times, who did that piece on the janitor's private watchdog agency, something that the DLSE should have been doing on it their own.

3 lawyers and Bradshaw; they still won't provide an ethical answer to a taxpayer, and nothing will happen to any of them. lABOR STANDARDS HAS NO LABOR STANDARDS.

By the way, I just programmed a software application that doesn't work. Where do I go to collect my DLSE cash & contract this software into DLSE kickbacks? Do I sleep with Clements or Culbeaux? I'll go either way if it speeds up my money!

What would happen if Badstreet, Bradshaw, Fryer, Culbeaux, & Holton were in charge of the DMV.....

Several months ago, I asked a certain jackass as to why the DLSE has failed to post overtime, commission, and vacation supplemental attachments to the wage claim website, since Labor Commissioner Jackass Badstreet wants "perfected" claims to adhere to the effing she received in the Corrales decision. To this date, Badstreet hasn't done sh*t to comply with Corrales: she's about as useless as pearls on a pig....oops, sorry Angela.

To this date, the A-holes have ignored my request in improving customer service to those filing claims related to vacation, commisions & overtime...like it affects the one supplying the helpful hint. This is about her absolute failure in taking care of the People of California, but since employers don't use these supplemental forms, and our Division has been staffed with pro-employer political appointee butt-licks, there isn't much hope that an employee will get the kind of customer service that employers receive.

The A-holes have continued to ignore this issue, even though I also raised this issue when that other jackass, Lupe Almaraz, gave his dipsh*t atta-girl/atta-boy speech at the 2006 Van Nuys Wage Claim training (that really wasn't training). Here's a hint, management losers-don't tell me that you appreciate my work: just shut your mouths (no one wants to hear your crapola) and do what's in the best interest of the Division, not your careers. I've never met a bigger bunch of candy-assed losers in my life.

Updated DIRt chain of command and their emails

At the very top of this horse manure pile is Labor Workforce Development Agency Victoria Bradshaw (Victoria.Bradshaw@labor.ca.gov), the next DIRt Director John Duncan (JDuncan@dir.ca.gov). After that, you have DLSE Chief Counsel Rob Roginson (RRoginson@dir.ca.gov) and Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet (ABradstreet@dir.ca.gov). Below Badstreet is Deputy Chief Denise Padres (DPadres@dir.ca.gov). It's my understanding that these public servants want to hear from the taxpayers of California, so send them as many emails expressing your voice. They don't listen to their own staff, as our emails are ignored, so maybe you'll have better luck.

Our latest Chief Counsel puppet is a pro-employer/class action guy, so don't believe for a minute that he has any bias towards working stiffs! The people that paid his bills in private practice were the same people that paid Angela Bradstreet's bills...employers.