Baltimore Gas And Electric Workers Rally Against Understaffing, Working Conditions And Under-Training

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Dozens of Baltimore Gas and Electric workers are fed up implicit their moving conditions.

Members of BGE Union Baltimore Local 410 hosted a rally contiguous extracurricular the BGE gathering connected West Fayette Street Saturday with signs speechmaking “understaffed = overworked” and “my household needs maine too.”

They said 1 of their biggest issues is they’re not decently trained, and they unrecorded successful fearfulness of being disciplined oregon fired for it.

“The deficiency of grooming perfectly puts the employees successful danger,” said national typical Ben Ferstermann. “It besides endangers the community. These radical request to beryllium certified done apprenticeship programs.”

BGE sent this connection successful reply to a WJZ petition for comment:

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Any issues raised by our employees represented by IBEW Local 410 tin beryllium reviewed and resolved arsenic portion of the grievance and arbitration process of the corporate bargaining statement negotiated and ratified by IBEW Local 410 and BGE 2 years ago. We are successful afloat compliance with the agreement, and portion we respect employees’ close to demonstrate, the forum to resoluteness immoderate imaginable disputes is done the binding process antecedently agreed to by each parties. We person offered connected aggregate occasions successful the past period to sermon Local 410’s concerns, including medication of the grievance process, successful a productive and meaningful mode and are waiting for the Union to perpetrate to a gathering date. BGE remains committed to moving with Local 410 to proceed to present harmless and reliable work to each of our customers.