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San Mateo to revisit law regulating day laborers
- An ordinance banning day laborers from gathering on the street in unincorporated San Mateo County may soon be history, as supervisors are expected to vote Tuesday to end the law.
Union: Overwork, low morale plague police
- The union representing Annapolis police officers said the department is overworked, leading to low morale and potential risks to residents.
County workers union rejects pension changes
- About 2,000 Baltimore County employees will forgo annual raises this year after they voted to reject a labor contract that reduced health care benefits and extended the minimum age for retirement.
- About 2,000 Baltimore County employees will forgo annual raises this year after they voted to reject a labor contract that reduced health care benefits and extended the minimum age for retirement.
Police secure 3 percent raise with county government
- In Anne Arundel’s first successful binding arbitration, the Police Supervisors Association secured a 3 percent across-the-board pay raise, County Executive John Leopold announced Monday.
Union rejects health care offer
- Members of the Baltimore County police union voted overwhelmingly to reject a county health care package that gradually increases employees’ contributions, officials said Thursday.
Teachers union vows organization on charters
- The American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation’s most aggressive unions, promised to revive its efforts to organize staff in the nation’s charter schools — a decision that could make D.C. a union battleground for years to come.
Montgomery likely to approve $30M union agreements
- Montgomery County Council members are expected today to vote on collective-bargaining agreements with the police and county workers’ unions that will provide raises to a bulk of the county’s work force and increase next year’s budget by almost $30 million.
Union rally stops traffic in Woodley Park
- Hotel workers and organized labor officials marched on the Marriott Park Hotel in Woodley Park Thursday evening to demand affordable housing, job security and better pensions.
Union, county get second chance on pension proposal
- The Baltimore County labor union that last week refused to accept proposed pension plan changes will leave the final decision to its members after lawmakers launched a persuasive last-ditch effort days before the annual budget is due.
Pay dispute settled with corrections guard union
- The District of Columbia’s juvenile justice agency recently ended a decade-long dispute with the youth corrections union, agreeing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to employees for past work.
Deadlines passes for union, county over labor dispute
- About 1,700 Baltimore County employees will not receive annual raises this year — some as high at 13 percent — after a decision their union representatives called a better alternative to proposed retirement and pension plan changes.
Today is last day for union, county to agree on pact
- With pay raises on the line, a Baltimore County judge ordered union leaders and government administrators to resolve a dispute over proposed cuts to employees’ retirement and pension plans by this afternoon.
