If Bradstreet wants Corrales dealt with, then why are Almaraz, Calva, and Gomez looking the other way at Hearing Officer Maria Valdez?

An anonymous source told me that Hearing Officer Maria Valdez is way behind on her wage claim hearing write ups, but in the Santa Ana DLSE office...girls are treated better than guys, or is Valdez being protected by Almaraz, Calva, and Gomez? If Bradstreet truly wants to make headway into that Corrales beat-down, then she should start with Hearing Officers who cannot write their wage claim decision in the specified time frame. Why isn't Angela Bradstreet on top of Lupe Almaraz, who should be on top Abigael Calva, who should be on top of Jorge Gomez, who should be on top of Maria Valdez? Why are they keeping this information from the Labor Commissioner?

Almaraz-Calva-Gomez-Valdez. Do you see a common denominator here?

Could it be that Almaraz, Calva, and Gomez are protecting Valdez? What if the surname was O'Malley or Hussein? Would an O'Malley or a Hussein be protected like Almaraz, Calva, and Gomez are protecting Valdez?

Supervisor Jorge Gomez made sure that Hearing Officer Maria Valdez wrapped up yesterday's wage claim hearing [summary: Defendant had Claimant arrested by INS before settlement conference, then filed a restraining order against Claimant, then had INS arrest Claimant again after the hearing, but there was no translator available because Maria's pissed off all except Patty (her favorite translator), case was eventually settled, then INS took the Claimant away].

Unfortunately, the problem is still there: no one wants to translate for Maria Valdez because she's treated them with disrespect & with discourtesy. If anyone, she should know the pride of La Raza. Jorge is an enabler: he enables Maria to do what she does, which is to piss off translators. Jorge's solution is to order Lenora to use different translators. Jorge should either order Maria to find her own translators or counsel Maria on the benefits of getting along with others; he won't do either one, so the problem festers, and the Californians get screwed in the process. Had this situation involved a male (or possibly, an O'Malley), then Greg Rupp would have come out of his toilet office to investigate & discipline.

Someone should call La Opinion, Univision, or Telemundo and tell them that the Santa Ana DLSE office is allowing the INS to arrest Mexican wage claim victims and that it's okay for employers to shirk their obligation to pay legitimate wages owed, although this GAS republican administration might use it as a press release.

And yet another Santa Ana Hearing Officer problem; oh yeah, the DLSE shut off blogger's email system - Dept. of Industrial Retaliation strikes again!

An anonymous source tells me that Hearing Officer Vicki Tamoush stopped midway through a hearing on August 14th because the Plaintiff could not understand the translator; the language was Spanish. The Defendant's attorney, who also spoke Spanish, commented on how professional the translator was, wanted to hire the translator for future projects, and offered his business card to the translator.

Also, Santa Ana's Wage Claim supervisor tried talking to another Santa Ana Hearing Officer in hopes of un-pissing off the translators that refuse to work for her. It was no good, she came up with some lame-ass blah blah blah to Don, and he told her to apologize directly to the translators she offended. She wouldn't; so now Don, the owner of the translator business, is no longer sending any translators to Hearing Officer Maria Valdez.

In other Santa Ana news, the DLSE locked out its internal email system to the blogger since August 3rd, so now the blogger can neither send nor receive DLSE email. The DLSE Deputy Chief has ignored the blogger's request for assistance, so it looks like Lupe's (again) giving the middle finger to the blogger..."shut off his email, that will show the blogger who's the boss." Intentional or Stoopid: who really cares?