{"id":13264,"date":"2020-07-01T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13264"},"modified":"2020-07-01T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:15:58","slug":"acevero-claims-mcgeo-fired-him-over-police-reform-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13264","title":{"rendered":"Acevero Claims MCGEO Fired Him Over Police Reform Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delegate Gabriel Acevero (D-39) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/01\/business\/economy\/police-unions-labor.html\">told the New York Times<\/a> that he was fired from his position at MCGEO, the union that represents most non-MCPS county employees, because of his legislative work on reforming police departments.  According to the Times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>When Gabriel Acevero, a Maryland state legislator employed by a union local, introduced a bill last year to roll back protections for police accused of misconduct, he was stepping on a potential fault line. His union, Local 1994 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, represents thousands of Black and Latino workers in food services and at a variety of government agencies. It also includes a small portion of workers in law enforcement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>That fault line turned out to be a chasm that could swallow him up. In mid-June, Mr. Acevero filed a formal charge with the National Labor Relations Board accusing the union of illegally firing him because of his reform advocacy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe reason why I was terminated,\u201d Mr. Acevero said, \u201cwas about legislation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MCGEO President Gino Renne was also interviewed by the Times. Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/01\/business\/economy\/police-unions-labor.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Delegate Gabriel Acevero (D-39) has told the New York Times that he was fired from his position at MCGEO, the union that represents most non-MCPS county employees, because of his legislative work on reforming police departments. According to the Times: When Gabriel Acevero, a Maryland state legislator employed by a union local, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acevero Claims MCGEO Fired Him Over Police Reform Legislation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,2362],"tags":[605,1469,1701],"class_list":["post-13264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcgeo","category-police","tag-gabe-acevero","tag-mcgeo","tag-police"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3rW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13266,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264\/revisions\/13266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}