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  • lemmylump@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    A fuck ton more states should do this and include fire departments, sanitation, and water and waste management.

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      Public service is specifically engineered to encourage bootlickers and weed out independent thinking.

      I was an employee of the department of homeland security for about 6 months back in 2023, and I was fired for invoking my Weingarten rights as a union member.

      This is very specifically against the law on local and federal levels.

      I told my union rep (AFGE local 1533) that my rights had been violated repeatedly. My rep told me “arbitrations are expensive” and that the union “will not pursue your grievances”.

      I wish an eye opening lose-your-income-and-housing on each and every person working for AFGE in any capacity.

      Fuck them once for not having a spine, and fuck them twice for the thoughts and prayers email they sent me just days ago asking for donations in the name of Alex Pretti. Absolutely ghoulish behavior.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Farías’ bill doesn’t stop at law enforcement. It prohibits those employed by ICE since the start of Trump’s immigration crackdown to the end of his term from working across state public school systems.

    Farías’ bill would extend the background check requirements to include an investigation of prior employment with ICE — along with employment at the Correction Departments in Alabama and Georgia from 2020 to Jan. 1, 2026.

    Representatives for unions representing California law enforcement and teachers told the Chronicle they were not yet ready to weigh in on the bill.

    Committee hearings for the bill have not yet been scheduled. The bill would need to pass both houses of California’s Legislature and win the signature of Gov. Gavin Newsom to become law.

    :-/

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    I’m gonna have a moral dilemma at some point where we are putting former ice agents in concentration camps as they await trial and their death sentences. Imma feel a little bad about that. Oh well

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      2 months ago

      Unless I missed it, they’re taking about I.C.E., not the National Guard.

      Or are you asking if former ICE agents would be able to join the National Guard?

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    2 months ago

    “I don’t mind the sexual predator next door, it’s the ICE Ape living up the street that creeps me out.”