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Labor Complaint against Navajo Nation Controller Grant in settlement talks

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where it is Day 2 of the hearing involving a Labor Complaint filed against Navajo Nation Controller Mark Grant by five former Office of the Controller employees, who were Senior Accountants. The five individuals are Marietta Roan, Lucinda Davis, Levon Smiley, Valentina Sallis and Cynthia Deschinny. They are being […]

Possible settlement of Labor complaint against Navajo Nation Controller Grant?

I’M BACK HERE AT THE NAVAJO LABOR COMMISSION HEARING ON A COMPLAINT FILED BY FIVE FORMER NAVAJO NATION OFFICE OF THE CONTROLLER AGAINST CONTROLLER MARK GRANT FOR ILLEGALLY LAYING THEM OFF IN SEPTEMBER 2013. YESTERDAY WAS DAY 1 OF THE HEARING. IT’S ABOUT 9:10 A.M. YESTERDAY’S CROSS EXAMINATION OF CONTROLLER GRANT BY ATTORNEY DAVID JORDAN […]

Navajo Nation Controller more concerned about performance than Navajo laws

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where Commission is hearing Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former senior accountants against Controller Mark Grant for illegally laying them off in September 2013. CONTROLLER MARK GRANT STILL TESTIFYING AND BEING QUESTIONED BY HIS ATTORNEY, NAVAJO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ATTORNEY HENRY HOWE. the layoff charts were […]

Objection – Navajo Justice Department testifying for witness, Controller Grant

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where Commission is hearing Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former senior accountants against Controller Mark Grant for illegally laying them off in September 2013. NAVAJO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ATTORNEY HENRY HOWE direct your attention to tribal personnel policies, December 2013, page 60 and 61, layoff […]

“At some point, you get squeezed so much that you have to have layoffs.”

Here at Navajo Labor Commission hearing where Commission is hearing Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former senior accountants against Controller Mark Grant for illegally laying them off in September 2013. Controller Mark Grant is first witness. about 60 percent from tribal revenues and 40 percent from state and federal funds. in […]

Layoffs were opportunity for Navajo Nation Controller to get rid of people he didn’t want

Here at the Navajo Nation Labor Commission hearing on a Navajo Nation Office of Navajo Labor Relations complaint filed by five former Office of the Controller employees, who are allegeding that Controller Mark Grant illegally laid them off in September 2013. The hearing started at 9 a.m. this morning but was delayed until noon after […]

Blog Talk Radio: Politics on the Navajo Nation

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I just wanted to share my weekly news update that I presented on tonight’s Politics on the Navajo Nation, which is a weekly blog talk radio show produced by my good fren, Cal Nez, who is also a small business owner. Cal Nez Design is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cal’s blog […]

RDC subcommittee: We keep saying No to uranium and stay in rut

Navajo Council’s Subcommittee on Navajo-URI uranium agreement meeting in north conference room of Council chamber in Window Rock. It is now 4:34 pm The conference is full. Several other Delegates are present because they are very concerned. Delegate Russell Begaye notes that according to a legal opinion from Navajo Justice Department that mineral agreements go […]

Subcommittee on Navajo-URI uranium agreement

NAVAJO COUNCIL’S RESOURCES & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NAVAJO NATION – URI uranium agreement has started. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE telling Navajo Council’s Resources & Development Committee Subcommittee on Navajo Nation – URI uranium agreement that he’s disappointed with how RDC took action on creating Subcommittee. Yazzie says, “No more sneaky stuff. Where people have to […]