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State's health workers deserve protection from violence
Workplace violence is a serious occupational hazard in hospitals and other health care facilities, a fact that has escaped an unsuspecting public. Nationally, nursing assistants employed by nursing homes have the highest incidence of workplace assault...Tags: Medical Specialization, Culture, Healthcare Policies, Nursing, Nursing Homes
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Fort Meade reaches agreement with union on furloughs
Fort Meade announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with the union representing Department of Defense employees on how proposed civilian furloughs will be handled. Civilian employees face up to 22 days of furlough — about a 20 percent...
Tags: Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employees
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Obama picks Perez to lead U.S. Labor Department
Senate Republicans criticized the nomination Monday of former state labor secretary Thomas E. Perez to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, signaling the longtime civil rights lawyer will face a contentious confirmation over his approach to the law and...
Tags: University of Richmond, Minority Groups, White House, Al Sharpton, Thomas Edward Perez
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Ernest B. Crofoot, labor organizer
Ernest B. Crofoot, a former labor organizer who later headed Council 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, died Friday of complications from cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 88.
"Ernie was one hell of a trade...Tags: Tuberculosis, Executive Branch, Ellicott City, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Unions
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Md. officials welcome talk of Perez as U.S. secretary of labor
Hispanic and union leaders in Maryland applauded reports Sunday that Thomas E. Perez, a longtime civil rights attorney who led the state's labor department for two years, is poised to be nominated as secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor as early as...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, George W. Bush, Elections, Minority Groups, White House
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If the GOP is doomed, why does it keep winning everything but the presidency?
The Republicans are doomed. Conservatism is over. President Obama is conducting a mop-up operation at this point. That's the basic consensus in places like New York City, Washington, D.C., and other citadels of blue America. And let's be fair,...
Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Rahm Emanuel, Scott Walker, New York City
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'Wage theft' prevails in post-recession economy
Behind the counter at a convenience store in Princess Anne, Elvira Orellana worked 72 hours a week, making sandwiches, cleaning the kitchen and ordering the ingredients to prepare oxtail, curry chicken and cheese steaks. Her employer paid her $648 a week...
Tags: Civil Laws, Employment, Business, Judges, Maryland Chamber of Commerce
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Brenda J. Clayburn, City Union of Baltimore president, dies
Brenda J. Clayburn, a founder and later president of the City Union of Baltimore who was also a longtime city Police Department supervisor, died Sunday of undetermined causes at her Northwest Baltimore home. She was 63. "She had recently been sick, and...
Tags: Work Relations, Elections, American Federation of Teachers, Substance Abuse, NAACP
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Campaign rules for federal employees get an update
Even as Congress and the White House appeared to be at a standoff over the fiscal cliff last month, lawmakers and the president were able to agree on at least one thing: an update of the Hatch Act.
The 1939 law prohibits federal employees and certain...Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Public Officials, Ellicott City, Fiscal Cliff
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500 steelworkers turn out to receive United Way holiday meals
For years, Jeff Mikula collected United Way donations from his fellow steelworkers at Sparrows Point. On Thursday, he — and 500 former co-workers from the now-closed plant — stood in line to receive them. The Dundalk man, who worked as an...
Tags: Baltimore County, Layoffs and Downsizing, Labor Markets, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Dundalk
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Term up for Social Security Administration's commissioner
President Barack Obama is expected to soon nominate a new head of the Social Security Administration, replacing an incumbent appointed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, but the White House is mum on who should take the helm at the agency, which faces...
Tags: Physical Disabilities, Culture, Health Insurance, White House, Judges
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Hyatt Regency hotel faces federal labor complaint
Unite Here — a labor union trying to organize workers at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore — gathered outside the hotel Tuesday to publicize a federal agency's decision to take the company to trial over alleged unfair labor practices. The...
Tags: Baltimore Hotels, Cornell University, Work Relations, Trials, NAACP
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