Posted on 03/22/2023 7:10:28 PM PDT by algore
If you think the Washington government bureaucracy is inefficient now, wait until you experience life under Senate Bill 5274.
Democrats are close to passing a bill that strikes a requirement that some civil service employees can read and write in English. SB 5274 ditches the English language requirement for city firefighter, police, or sheriff’s office positions. The same is true for fish and wildlife officer positions. The bill also extends these jobs to allow lawful permanent residents to apply.
This latest left-wing equity push neither makes sense nor serves the public. While Democrats pretend you don’t need to understand the English language, it’s a necessary requirement for these positions. These jobs primarily function around the English language.
This is the equity agenda at play
Its primary sponsor, State Senator Javier Valdez (D-Seattle), argued this bill would help expand the candidate pool for law enforcement agencies suffering from low staffing. But to what end? If they cannot read English as a police officer, how will they be able to understand written policies or read information from the Mobile Data Computer inside police vehicles? How do they prepare required reports if they cannot write in English?
“These are folks who are forced to deliver services to our citizens around the state. Certainly, if they’re bilingual, that’s actually valuable. Oftentimes, they’re paid more … but to think that you can somehow function and deliver services in our society without being able to read or write English, I think is, again, wrongheaded,” Senate minority leader John Braun (R-Centralia) told The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
This is a transparent attempt to social engineer a more diverse workforce. Ironically, Democrat lawmakers who support this bill don’t employ staff who cannot write or read English.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
The irony is many cities prefer bilingual candidates for Police and Fire jobs, typically English and Spanish. Instead of getting rid of the Spanish requirement, they are getting rid of the English requirement. What a country. We are so screwed.
In a few years, all we are going to hear is “Para Espanol, oprema dos” with no option for English.
This shouldn’t be problem. There should be no reason a person in public safety should have to know how to read and write in English, is there? For shouldn’t there be signs everywhere with pictures indicating if there is a safety problem?
Doesn’t everyone know if there is a big red X over a door that means you shouldn’t open it? And LEO’s can tell if a person hands them a note saying “I’ve been kidnapped” what it says just by the frowny faces drawn beneath her signature. Yep, this should work out fine!
D.I.E policies are killing every institution. Soon they will be killing us! I wouldn’t get on a plane these days, if someone offered me a million dollars!
Diversity...
Inclusion...
Equity...
or...
D.I.E.
O’Bummer told us...
Just wait until you have to communicate with an officer of the law who doesn’t speak english. That should be great fun.
Rats are simply evil
In industrial plants I have worked or visited there were often areas which would be dangerous to those who didn’t know the safety rules.You must be able to read them.
“Just wait until you have to communicate with an officer of the law who doesn’t speak english.”
Or a paramedic, or a civil engineer, or…
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Alto, policia!
Alto, o te dispararé!
“In industrial plants I have worked or visited there were often areas which would be dangerous to those who didn’t know the safety rules.You must be able to read them.”
The signs will be printed in Espanol (only). What’s the problem?
William only speaks English.
Ezmerelda only speaks Spanish.
Angelo only speaks Tagalog.
Mulyadi only speaks Malay.
Bautista only speaks Haitian Creole
Maybe they can all get together and build a tower. What should we call the building? The Tower of ...
why not? no one can SPEAK English in our country anymore..
About seven years ago, the Port of San Pedro, signed a redevelopment agreement with the ILWU. The agreement was so far out in Leftwing that it sounded absurd. It was DEI before was invented.
The workers had to reflect the racial and cultural makeup of the community, including a percentage former felons. The contract could be a blueprint for DEI.
Did they intend for this agenda to mean, “of God”?
Guess this means that most Ph.D. holders from American universities will now be able to get WA government jobs...
Yeah, cause everyone knows the less people know the safer
we all are.
Gubmint employees don’t need to know how to read and write. They’ve got Alexa. All they have to do is peck at their cellphone.
Or ignoring all of their chickensh!t rules that are written on signs everywhere.
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