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Plant idling raises concerns about future of Sparrows Point
It's deja vu at Sparrows Point.
The Baltimore County plant once again faces wholesale layoffs and a possible sale.
The same story has played out every couple of years for the past decade at the steel plant, whose future remains in limbo.
The...Tags: Bethlehem Steel, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs, Kevin Kamenetz, Unemployment
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Union: Fire co. set to close played key role in saving 3 children
A fire company slated for closure played a key role in rescuing three children caught in a Sunday morning blaze in West Baltimore, the fire union said. Truck 10, one of three companies the department is planning to disband, was among the first to respond...Tags: Fires, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Heavy Engineering
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May Day books
May Day (May 1) seems a bit old-fashioned these days, as union membership is squeezed, but it recounts the bitter fight for organized labor in American and around the world. Much of that fight traces back to Baltimore in 1866, when trade union...
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Baltimore area Giant and Safeway workers approve new contract
Union workers at Safeway and Giant Food in the Baltimore and Washington regions overwhelmingly approved a new contract Tuesday that increases wages and maintains key benefits. "It's a good day to be a member," said Tim Goins, executive vice president...Tags: Safeway Inc., Landover, U.S. Supreme Court, Wage Contract Issues, Labor Legislation
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Fire/EMS Foundation lost $639,000 in assets in 2011
Harford County's hybrid fire and ambulance service operation, which is asking the county to give it a "stopgap" of $400,000, has had some recent financial struggles, according to audits obtained by The Aegis. Bill Dousa, head of the Harford County Fire &...Tags: Finance, Accounting and Auditing
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Police union runs ads in favor of Teare's deputy chief
The union that represents Anne Arundel County's upper police ranks plans to run a radio ad beginning Thursday in support of the department's second-in-command, who has called for a federal probe of the department and said the force is "dysfunctional."...Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Anne Arundel County, Radio
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Police union changes content of anti-Leopold radio ad
The union that represents high-ranking police officers in Anne Arundel County has dropped the name of the force's second-in-command from a radio ad that criticizes the county's executive and chief of police. The International Brotherhood of Police...Tags: Trials, Anne Arundel County, Radio
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Youth violence, staff force spiked in 2011 at troubled juvenile detention facilities
In the J. DeWeese Carter Center in Kent County, youths would pick fights that sometimes turned into melees, recalled Rodney Stallworth, who spent four months there last year on a drug charge.
The detention system frustrated the 18-year-old East Baltimore...Tags: Frederick County (Maryland), Kent County, Sex Crimes, AFSCME, Carroll County (Maryland)
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State's high court to hear Arundel binding arbitration dispute
A key labor battle in Anne Arundel County will go before the state's highest court next month, when the Court of Appeals tackles the dispute over binding arbitration for the county's public safety unions. Angering the nine unions, the county moved last...Tags: Trials, Arbitration, Labor Legislation, Anne Arundel County, Justice System
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Nasty police spat unfolding in Westminster over unions
A contentious battle is unfolding in the quiet town of Westminster, where rank and file police officers seeking union representation are squaring off against the police chief and mayor, a former state cop with nearly three decades experience. Town...Tags: Government Debt, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Vehicles, Labor Legislation, Apple iPad
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Job security not guaranteed for some Balto Co. unions
Earlier this year, Baltimore County promised job security through 2014 for members of three public employee unions, but county officials say they can't make the same guarantee for other labor groups. The Kamenetz administration is in talks with the...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, AFSCME, Public Employees, Kevin Kamenetz, Unemployment
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Westminster police chief, mayor attack union chief over allegations of misspent money
Westminster's mayor and police chief denied accusations leveled by a union chief that they misspent money at the expense of public safety, saying the labor representative is trying to drive a wedge through the city's small police force.
Joined by two...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Harford County, Vehicles, Finance, Baltimore County
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