AFT Healthcare-Maryland president Debra Perry reports that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing are co-sponsoring free training courses for all DHMH nurses.
The Maryland Professional Employees Council (MPEC) and AFT Healthcare-Maryland will continue their negotiations with state officials on a new Memorandum of Understanding in a meeting scheduled for November 1, 2013, at the Maryland Department of Transportation in Hanover, Maryland. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m.
AFT Healthcare-Maryland president Debra Perry has called for an immediate investigation of unsafe working conditions at the Thomas B. Finan Center in Cumberland, Maryland, where a staff member was brutally attacked and injured October 14th. The staff member was stabbed in the back of the head with a seven-inch galvanized spike while trying to restrain a combative patient.
In an effort to get our membership plugged-in to the issues affecting them in their workplace, their community, and their political surroundings, AFT-Maryland has developed a survey to see which issues are the most important to our members.
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The Executive Board of AFT Healthcare-Maryland will meet October 2nd at 7127 Rutherford Road in Baltimore at 5:30 p.m.
For information, contact President Debra Perry at 410-645-3062, ext.207.
Saturday night, a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman, a man who killed an unarmed teenager in cold blood. While we believe in the rule of law and while the jury has spoken, the implications of the acquittal are profound. It is disappointing that a racially profiled, unarmed African-American young man can be shot dead with no consequences for the perpetrator.