Marylanders for Food and Farmworker Protection says the state needs to create a preparedness plan for future infectious disease emergencies. The existing template in use today is inadequate.
After a year of living with COVID-19, it’s instructive to look at how state workers fared over the past year.
Despite strong pushback from the business community and moving late in the legislative session, the Maryland Essential Workers’ Protection Act made it through both…
An emergency bill to protect essential workers during public health emergencies is moving through the Maryland General Assembly. However, with less than a week…
If you eat, you should care about farm workers. Skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases at meatpacking facilities and poultry processing plants have routinely left…
Maryland’s state government is set to receive a multi-billion dollar boost as part of the latest federal stimulus package – and a broad coalition…
As a technician in the emergency department of a busy hospital in Prince George’s County, I thought I had seen it all over the…
Maryland labor unions are seeking hazard pay and mandatory health and safety standards for essential workers during emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic. But business…
Sophia Atu has been a nurse at Prince George’s Hospital Center for over 20 years. She knew that the job would be challenging when…