GAS, always looking for a way to help his corporate contributors, still wants meal & rest periods to go away

You gotta give GAS credit; he'll use any reason he can find to justify DLSE from not enforcing its own laws. By not enforcing meal & rest period laws, this only helps one class of people, the corporate ruling class. Click pic to enlarge, go to the Sacramento Bee for full coverage.

GAS also wants to take away holidays, put workers on furlough, and tax stuff.

DLSE milquetoast Jorge Gomez still tries to be a supervisor...

This ass clown, while a group is eating in the lunch room, opens the door and tells Jane-who isn't supervised by him-he tells her to stop swearing.  She used the word "ass."  Jorge Gomez just called her out like that in front of all her peers, and he didn't bother to pull her aside and talk to her privately.  Besides, she was on an unpaid meal period, so what was he doing talking to people on their lunch?

In another instance, he walks by Steve's office and tells Steve to stop swearing.  Yeah, that lasted about a day before Jorge finally quit and gave up: he's been ordered to secretly go after the blogger, and like the little POS that he is, he just bends over and takes every one of their orders like a prison wife.  He secretly removed about 75 case files without updating its DLSE 900 Notes.  One would think he'd put the reason to yank and review the file, but Jorge Gomez hardly puts anything in writing anymore.

Prison Wife Jorge Gomez had a chance to weigh in on the recent McCoy decision because Steve had an issue arise from a wage claim that needed a legal decision.  Instead of Jorge Gomez updating the investigative 900 Notes, he told Steve just to give it to Santa Ana's legal counsel, Johanna Hsu...much like the way Tony Soprano would order a case file sent to legal.  At the end of the day, the DLSE is too cheap to hire lawyers to interpret such laws, so they have DLCs conduct labor law conferences and hearings, all because the DLSE would rather spend $10,000,000+ on CMS and not hire the right people for the right job.

LWDA Secretary Victoria Bradshaw's loser career highlights:

1) Bradshaw's the same loser that lost the US Supreme Court case Livadas v. Bradshaw, right?

2) Bradshaw hired Jose Millan, the same guy that lost Cuadra v. Millan, right?

3) Bradshaw ended up making Millan leave his LWDA Deputy Secretary position because of his meal & rest period games, right?

4) Bradshaw then picked Robert Jones to replace that loser Jose Millan, right?

5) Robert Jones, after he thoroughly f*cks the DLSE, is selected by Bradshaw as Deputy Secretary to continue the work of Jose Millan, right?

6) Robert Jones fails to receive one pinche vote for his senate confirmation, right?

7) Bradshaw used her position & personnel to terminate Miles Locker, via Robert Jones, John Rea, and Anthony Mischel, right?

8) Victoria Bradshaw, appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is so stupid that she doesn't know what a meal and a rest period is; furthermore, the jackass morons she hires are also so stupid that they can't figure it out for her, right?

If LWDA jackass Robert Jones is to be confirmed by the Senate on May 14, then contact the Senate NOW!

Please contact every member of the Senate Rules Committee and find out who's in charge of reviewing, approving, and confirming this clown for his political appointment.  Here's what the Senate members need to ask at the confirmation hearing:

1) Why did you issue a "No-speak" memo to DLSE attorneys, only to cowardly yank it after they filed a PERB complaint?

2) Why did you terminate Miles Locker in exchange for being Acting Labor Commissioner and Acting Chief Counsel?  How long have you lived your life as Acting Jackass?

3) Why were you involved in the Blogger's Free Speech litigation, and why do you hate free speech, as evidenced by your 'No Speak' memo and anti-blogger involvement?

4) How long have you been a whore for the Meal & Rest Period reform attempted by the various lobbyists and political contributors?

5) Will you continue to whore yourself for either monetary gain or political power?  What is your starting price, and can an individual taxpayer afford it, other than the Governor that appointed you?

6) How much did you personally profit, either politically or financially, from the (at least) $6,000,000.00 taxpayer-paid abortion called "CMS?"

7) How were you able to deceive the taxpayers of their political due process by collecting a paycheck as Acting Labor Commissioner for almost two years?  Is it because they could not appoint you as Labor Commissioner because you would never be confirmed?  You received two years of experience, being a loyal a dedicated whore for your masters, so that it would be an easier sell to this political appointment?

8) Why were you down in San Diego, actively involved with the "Brinker" decision?  Was this another example of you on your knees, trying to please your masters?  Did the taxpayers pay for your flight from Nor Cal to San Diego?  What was the excuse/justification for the taxpayers to take in the shorts for your jaunt?

9) What was that stunt you tried to pull with Wal Mart?  Didn't you want to save them $60,000,000.00+ by knee-capping the lawsuit against them concerning the statute of limitations regarding meal & rest periods?  Is Wal Mart also one of your masters, or do you drop to your knees for any big corporation?

10) Other than living on your knees to please your masters, explain in detail how your public service benefits Californians overall, or do you just take up space to please elite millionaires and employers?

This clown has been a disaster for public service since DAY 1.  If he is confirmed by the senate, then  it will be a dark day for all Californians earning less than $125,000.00 per year.

Victoria Bradshaw, Robert Jones, Angela Bradstreet have fallen in love with Brinker Restaurant Corp; Brinker hates its workers, too?

Back in 2002, two DLSE attorneys nailed Brinkers (Chili's Grill & Bar, Romano's Macaroni Grill, On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina,and Maggiano's Little Italy) for labor law violations to the tune of about $10,000,00.00 (ten million dollars).

November 18, 2003: day 2 of Victoria Bradshaw's political apppointment under the Governator. She hauls in Miles Locker and Anne Stevason and demanded to know who in the hell interpreted meal & rest periods as a three-year statute. Vicky's husband works as a big-shot lawyer for Jackson Lewis, who has the client of....wait for it....the California Retailer's Association, who really don't promote worker's rights & equality in the workplace.

August, 2004: another class action lawsuit filed against Brinker Restaurant Corp. for what? You guessed it, the same bullsh*t that they violated previously. Mind you, this was a private lawsuit not involving the DLSE...but guess who was there, listening in? Robert Jones, Vicky Bradshaw's favorite douchebag lap dog! He was there to make his little book report for Vicky Bradshaw! This is big-bucks, and well into the hundreds of millions of dollars, this meal & rest period thing.

September, 2007: the California Court of Appeal issues a "non-published" opinion concerning the Brinker lawsuit, meaning that (more or less), no one else needs to adhere to it. Over fifteen EMPLOYER organizations wrote letters to the court, begging the court to make the opinion "published," so that they could immediately start screwing over their employees. Do you know who else wrote a letter to the court, also begging them to make the opinion "published?" That's right, our very own Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet! She hates employees, too!

What business is it of hers, regarding a private lawsuit? Why is Vicky Bradshaw, Governor Schwarzenegger's ho puppet for the restaurant/retailer lobbies, sending a flunkie like Robert Jones down to San Diego to eavesdrop on private, class action litigation? Why is Angela Bradstreet writing such a biased letter to the court? Why does she hate employees? Doesn't she understand that not everyone can be a plantation owner? Wisely, the court denied her request.

Why is our Labor Commissioner so biased towards employees and so loving to employers; isn't her job is to be impartial and just to enforce the law?

"She [Bradstreet] called the state's current regulations "confusing and conflicting" and has scheduled a second forum Thursday in Northridge"

Sacramento Article dated 08/03/07, Work rule for meals on front burner, by Dale Kasler.

It seems that our new political appointee Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet calls our current regulations "confusing and conflicting." Being penalized for violating state law isn't "confusing and conflicting;" it's breaking the law. Look at who's been doing the crying: big-business lobbyists. Yeah, let's make it easier for employers to jam up their employees.

Employers cannot regulate themselves on their own, which is why the Labor Commissioner's office is charged with enforcing such laws. When you have a Labor Commissioner who's a Republican appointee, it seems that she's already serving those who got her the appointment. GAS has/wants/needs the California Restaruant Lobby in his back pocket; they have mucho dinero for his future campaigns. It seems perfectly logical that Labor Commissioner Bradstreet will serve big money; she's right, our current regulations are a joke. That's why the California Supreme Court told her how to interpret her own regulations.

It's surprising that she's quoted in the Sac Bee article as calling these regulations "confusing and conflicting" It's sad that she wasn't quoted saying this: "the courts have spoken, and my agency will vigorously enforce against anyone who violates these laws. Those who obey the law have nothing to worry about; those who do-we're coming."

She wants a second forum in Northridge; you gotta be kidding me. I hope she's not some typical lawyer that just dances around the topic and does nothing...Miles wouldn't do that.