City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0162R

• File #: 09-0162R
• Version: 0
• Name: Free & Fair Union Elections for Baltimore Healthcare Workers
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/5/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/5/2009
• Title: Free & Fair Union Elections for Baltimore Healthcare Workers FOR the purpose of calling upon Baltimore area healthcare institutions to support the expansion of our city’s middle class by fostering an economic recovery with shared prosperity for all Baltimoreans, providing family-sustaining jobs with advancement opportunities for healthcare workers, and ensuring access to quality patient care.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, Mary Pat Clarke, Sharon Green Middleton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, William H. Cole, IV, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, Bill Henry, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/5/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
10/5/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
10/5/2009	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake
At the request of: 1199 SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East
Address: c/o John Reid, Executive Vice President, 611 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore,
Maryland 21201
Phone: 410-332-1199

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Free & Fair Union Elections for Baltimore Healthcare Workers

FOR the purpose of calling upon Baltimore area healthcare institutions to support the expansion of our city’s middle class by fostering an economic recovery with shared prosperity for all Baltimoreans, providing family-sustaining jobs with advancement opportunities for healthcare workers, and ensuring access to quality patient care.
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Recitals

One in five jobs in Baltimore City is in healthcare, and the quality of healthcare jobs helps determine the economic health of our city overall. Advances in medical technology and the increasing demands of the aging population of our city necessitate more training opportunities and recruitment incentives for these workers.

Baltimore City is the proud home to many healthcare institutions where the quality of care they offer is closely connected to the quality of the jobs for workers who provide that care. Training for these caregivers is most effective when healthcare worker unions and employers work together to identify shortages, apply for grants, develop education programs, and motivate workers to participate.

While healthcare workers truly ar...