Unemployed Workers Union Vows To Keep Fighting After Baltimore Judge Dismisses Lawsuit

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A class-action suit filed by a conjugation of Marylanders seeking unemployment benefits for those who haven’t received them has been thrown out.

In July, the Unemployed Workers Union sued the Maryland Department of Labor, saying out-of-work residents did not person unemployment benefits they were due. The authorities challenged the complaint, saying astir unemployment claims were paid, and filed a question to disregard past week. A justice granted that question Tuesday.

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In handing down his ruling, Baltimore City Circuit Judge John Nugent determined that Maryland’s labour codification allows residents to record appeals erstwhile they’re denied unemployment benefits, and lone aft that process is completed tin they spell to tribunal implicit it.

The Maryland General Assembly “detailed circumstantial procedures for which applicants for unemployed security benefits could question reappraisal of the Department’s actions,” Judge Nugent wrote. “There is nary grounds that the General Assembly intended to supply backstage remedies to unemployed workers.”

In response, the Unemployed Workers Union (UWU) said it powerfully disagreed with the judge’s ruling and vowed to transportation connected its fight.

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“The Department of Labor’s refusal to administer already paid for national benefits is an implicit disgrace,” the conjugation said successful part. “While the State of Maryland pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to decision our lawsuit, radical proceed to suffer their homes, cars and possessions. Families person been made bankrupt and near without nutrient and necessities.”

The radical said it is reviewing disposable ineligible strategies and plans to support up its protests. Attorney Alec Summerfield, who represents the UWU, said antecedently the national would record an entreaty if the lawsuit were dismissed.

“We volition instrumentality our combat to the ‘Court of the people” and we volition triumph there!” the conjugation said.

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CBS Baltimore Staff