Maryland’s largest state employee union is expecting to see a big increase in funding thanks to a law that allows it to collect fees from nonmembers. The Maryland chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will ...

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Baltimore’s police and fire labor unions used the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ arrival in Baltimore to publicly denounce Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s funding cuts by erecting a billboard Thursday directed toward the mayor and other conference attendees. The billboard, located on ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The director of Maryland’s largest union for state employees says between 5,000 and 10,000 people are expected to attend a rally in Annapolis to protest pension changes. Patrick Moran, director of the Maryland chapter of the American Federation ...

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Has Gov. Martin O’Malley checked out already? Is he already running for President … circa 2016? Is Maryland an afterthought? Even before people started counting his trips to Washington, the political channels were full of you-heard-it-here-first conjecture, smug partisan jibes ...

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