AFL-CIO

State's health workers deserve protection from violence

2013-04-25 10:57:17

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...

Fort Meade reaches agreement with union on furloughs

2013-03-19 11:56:00

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...

Obama picks Perez to lead U.S. Labor Department

2013-03-18 17:07:00

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...

Ernest B. Crofoot, labor organizer

2013-03-18 13:59:22

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...

Md. officials welcome talk of Perez as U.S. secretary of labor

2013-03-10 18:46:00

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...

If the GOP is doomed, why does it keep winning everything but the presidency?

2013-02-04 03:00:00

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,...

'Wage theft' prevails in post-recession economy

2013-02-02 16:44:03

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...

Brenda J. Clayburn, City Union of Baltimore president, dies

2013-01-30 12:49:00

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...

Campaign rules for federal employees get an update

2013-01-27 06:55:00

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...

500 steelworkers turn out to receive United Way holiday meals

2012-12-20 18:33:00

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...

Term up for Social Security Administration's commissioner

2013-01-07 16:37:00

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...

Hyatt Regency hotel faces federal labor complaint

2012-11-13 16:19:39

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...

Maryland and D.C. AFL-CIO President Fred Mason speaks Monday at a Workers Memorial Day ceremony held at the Central Maryland AFL-CIO Labor office.

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Larry Barron, left, and Dave Dopp take part in a prayer during a Workers Memorial Day ceremony held at the Central Maryland AFL-CIO Labor office on Monday.

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Community advocate Suzanne Winters speaks at a demonstration called "Community Speak-Out" hosted by the AFL-CIO federation in Burbank outside Congressman Adam Schiff's headquarters on Wednesday, January 30, 2013.

2013-01-30 14:33:00