Rodriguez Sides with Call Centers; Against Workers & Community

City Rep Henry Rivera had an agenda item to figure out some ways to ensure that large businesses like call centers are complying with the orders relating to mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in the community.

Frankly I think the better discussion is how those germ farms are even considered essential work right now, but that is a blog for another day.

Bottom line is that call centers are a big potential threat to the community because they employ a lot of people, often in shift work, in tight quarters where employees share keyboards and headsets with the shift before them or after them. Multiple news sources have reported on at least one call center allegedly hiding employees while city inspectors were on the premises along with other alleged violations.

Call center employees then go home and potential expose their families - or you and I if they go grocery shopping, etc.

So Rivera being responsive to his community wanted to explore some options on how to deal with that issue. Common sense right? The entire city council was on board with it.

This is one of those no-brainer type issues.

All except one city representative - newly-elected Republican District 6 City Rep Claudia Rodriguez.

You remember her right? The one who had to be explained what the difference was between yay and nay. She's the City Rep that was bought and paid for by Max Grossman - who is currently on a crusade to use the corona virus to defund the voter-approved projects in the downtown area.

Well incredibly and inexplicably, Rodriguez voted against the effort to come up with some solutions to better protect workers in call centers and by extension, the community - to include your parents and possibly grandparents.

The only other time Rodriguez has really even spoke on any issue having to do with the pandemic is to make sure that the city was gong to come down the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo with restrictions. Apparently she's never heard of the fact that its a sovereign nation - or that it shut down operations BEFORE the city came out with its orders.

I seriously hope the Pueblo decides to contribute to one of her opponents (yes, there are a couple lining up to get a decent city rep back in that seat).

We all want to get back to normal. We all want to be able to spend time with our families again and do all the stuff we used to do before the pandemic. We can get there a whole lot faster when people are complying with rules so we can mitigate this spread and beat this thing.

It makes no sense that there are policy makers that don't understand that very basic concept and would vote against protecting members of their community.

Its not leadership.

Its reckless.

And she puts us all at risk.