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Report warned of jail officer's alleged gang ties in 2006
One of the corrections officers accused this week of helping Black Guerrilla Family members smuggle drugs into a Baltimore jail was flagged seven years ago for alleged gang ties. A state investigator raised concerns in 2006 that Antonia Allison might...
Tags: Organized Crime, Prisons, Lawyers, Justice System, Trials
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Unions do their business on taxpayers' dime
It's the old "fair share" argument, but this time it holds even less water than usual. The Maryland State Education Association, the union that bargains on behalf of K-12 teachers throughout Maryland, wants to force all teachers — members or not &#...Tags: Calvert County, Labor Legislation, Elections, Martin O'Malley, Allegany County
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More than 100 Pa. Labor Department workers face layoffs
HARRISBURG (MCT) — More than 100 workers at the state's Department of Labor and Industry will be losing their jobs later this month due to declining federal funds, according to department officials. The impacted workers will come from across the...Tags: Finance, Career and Workplace, Economy, Business and Finance, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Unemployment
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Letters to the Editor - April 19
Marriage should be defined by those involved To the editor: The April 1 letter “Governments have no right to redefine marriage” misconstrues several important concepts. Marriage is (clearly) both a religious and a civil right (ceremony...Tags: Gun Control, Labor Legislation, Religion and Belief, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Personal Weapon Control
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Inmates ask officers for contraband, retirees say
The inmates' requests often start small, former corrections officers say: a ballpoint pen, for example, or a sandwich from beyond the prison walls. "You may think it's insignificant," said former Cpl. Sheila Hill, who retired last year from the Patuxent...
Tags: Organized Crime, Martin O'Malley, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Prisons, Annapolis
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Union for patient-care workers at UC hospitals to take strike vote
The union representing nearly 13,000 University of California patient-care workers plans to take a strike vote beginning Tuesday. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME 3299, will hold the strike vote through...Tags: Career and Workplace, Unions, Elections, Abusive Behavior, Politics
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State Fires Worker Who Showed Lanza's Body To Her Husband At Morgue
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's chief medical examiner has fired a state employee who let her husband view the body of mass killer Adam Lanza in the morgue two days after the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre, The Courant has learned. The employee, Jean Henry, was...Tags: John G. Rowland, Labor Legislation, University of Connecticut Health Center, Laws, Regional Authority
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State employees may get raises for first time in six years
State employees would get a raise of at least $1,000 under a deal struck Saturday by House and Senate negotiators, as the final pieces of the state budget fell into place. Under the plan agreed to by Senate Appropriations Chairman Joe Negron, R-Stuart,...Tags: Rick Scott, Justice System, Government Contracts, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil and Public Service
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Top jail officials to be polygraphed following gang indictment
State corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard ordered polygraph tests Friday of top administrators and "integrity reviews" of every employee at the Baltimore City Detention Center in an effort to root out corruption at the jail. Maynard has moved his...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Douglas F. Gansler, Maryland State Police, U.S. Department of Labor, Prisons
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Assaults on staff are focus of scathing report at Catonsville psychiatric hospital
In-patient units at Spring Grove Hospital Center in Catonsville have become troubled environments where serious assaults on hospital staff are common, according to a scathing new report from a consultant for the Maryland health department. The chaos...
Tags: Maryland State Police, Sex Crimes, Lawyers, Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals
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Greuel to explore pension changes for existing city employees, backer says
L.A. NOWA co-chairman of Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel’s mayoral campaign told business leaders Wednesday that his candidate will explore an increase in the retirement age for current city workers. A day before she is set to meet with the...... -
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: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Religion and Belief, Nursing Homes, World War II (1939-1945), Ellicott City
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