“It was just more spin, and propaganda cranked out by the pro-CNMI labor system supporters and anti-federalization fighters,” the Florida-based Doromal said in an e-mail.
According to the former Rota teacher, San Nicolas’ response was “reflective of responses to charges of denial of workers’ rights and injustices that have been launched against DOL for decades.”
But people will not stop from investigating and complaining about Labor’s “unjust policies,” Doromal said.
Reps. Tina Sablan, Ind.-Saipan, and Edward T. Salas, R-Saipan, earlier asked to clarify the “questionable policies, procedures and inappropriate action” it has implemented.
Doromal said some of the Labor secretary’s answers were evasive or were non-answers.
However, she added, “it was enlightening to know that the department and the secretary stand behind the biased and inappropriate words against guest workers that [Deputy Labor Secretary] Cinta Kaipat has spewed out repeatedly while representing the department.”
She added, “No apologies were made, and that is absolutely inexcusable, but again not surprising considering the source.”
While she lauded Labor for reaching workers through its new Web site, Doromal is doubtful if many guest workers can have access to computers.
“They are either fools or they are doing this purposely because they can, and they enjoy sticking it to the workers,” she added.
Doromal said she is “disgusted that the practices of DOL are allowed to continue on U.S. soil.”
She wants to know who will hold Labor accountable for its “civil rights violations, for unconstitutional practices, for the denial of workers’ rights.”
“Where,” she asked, “is the U.S. Department of Justice?”
Attorneys, she said, should have filed class action suits “to end these unjust practices that too frequently deny workers their rights and excuse the violations of employers.”
“Where is the oversight hearing? Do they think that they can erase all of the damage and injustice they have perpetuated, and even instigated over the decades with lame excuses and ridiculous justifications?” she asked.
Doromal said Labor will go down in history as an “evil entity reminiscent of the evil systems in the U.S. that supported and upheld the atrocities of slavery.”
She added, “The CNMI labor system is one tiny notch below slavery with its disenfranchised underclass that is denied of political and social rights. They can spin it any way they want to, but shallow words will not correct the serious wrongs within this department, nor will they cover them up.”
Buddha once said that there are three things that cannot remain hidden — the sun, the moon and the truth, Doromal said.
She promised to continue to expose the truth about Labor “and the innocent people they are hurting to every U.S. department, agency and official with power to enact change.”
