PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Christopher Leon Johnson, Member of the Public
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Christopher Leon Johnson testifies in support of resolutions to protect laundry workers and discusses employee retention in the city workforce. He advocates for waiving civil service exam fees for certain applicants and emphasizes the need to protect immigrant workers from retaliation.
- Supports adding retail laundry workers to the union
- Suggests removing restrictions on political activity and moonlighting for city workers
- Proposes waiving exam fees for high schoolers, first-time applicants, and those below 30% AMI poverty rate
- Emphasizes the importance of educating immigrant workers about their rights and protections against retaliation
Christopher Leon Johnson
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I'm ready.
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Hi.
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My name is Christopher Leon.
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Johnson Deakey, chair of holding this hearing.
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We're here to support the resolutions to protect the launch workers.
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I believe that they need more protections, from their work.
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I just hope that very soon that retail laundry workers get added to the union too other than just industrial laundry workers.
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I wanna talk about, employee retention, How you you could save employee retention in the city workforce is by, basically removing certain provisions in, city employment such as removing, when it comes to political, doing politics on the job.
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Basically, you gotta remove certain things when it comes to, like, moonlighting on a job.
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I believe that people should, like, do certain, like, to to protect things going down the city.
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You need city workers to be with the people because remember they could vote too.
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And when it comes to this in the intro, for DCAS, when it comes to, like, employee fees, like, pay show people pay for dues, the the the work.
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I mean, they'll do a test, like, for teenagers, high schoolers, and for applicants.
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Yeah.
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That should be that should be waived.
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I mean, no ice repaying fees, especially you you you don't have a job or if you it's hard to get a job.
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I believe that, it's gonna be first time, you should get 3 times.
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If you fail 3 times, then you pay.
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The city has enough money to for, like, to waive $70 fees, 40, people that wanna that wanna work.
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Basically, not only do you need to to waive fees for the high schoolers and for top applicants, you need to waive fees for anybody that makes less than the, 30 30% AMI, poverty rate.
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People that makes less than lower poverty ranges, they should be able to, able to pay any fees.
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But going back to this, laundry worker thing, a laundry worker stuff, these these guys and gals need a lot of protections on the workforce.
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And, I know this year, hopefully, this union should be fighting back against retaliation on the workforce.
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Especially right now, what we have is, president in the White House, Donald Trump.
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I know so many I mean, guys here are migrants, immigrants, and you gotta we gotta start educating these guys and gals about, if they wanna file complaints to the to the bosses that there's protections to make sure that these guys don't get, retaliate with the help of ICE and Department of Homeland Security because these guys file complaints on these bosses.
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So this year, I was like, this year, I just want my education, making sure that these people, mostly migrants, don't be retaliating against by their bosses if they wanna file complaints, especially in these industrial workforces, like the industrial laundry workforces, since a lot of these guys and guys speak his Spanish foreign languages.
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So, I mean, protect these guys and gals this year.
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This is this year is about protecting these guys and gals.
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We all see what's going on over this country with, immigration.
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So that's all I gotta say.
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Thank you.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
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Thank you so much for coming.