MD Delegates OK Fair-Share Health Care

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

After extensive lobbying in Annapolis by citizen’s groups and labor, including e-activist campaigns mid-week by the Metro Council and UFCW 400, the Maryland House of Delegates last week approved the Fair-Share Health Care Plan (HB #1284), which will make companies like Wal-Mart provide health care for their workers and stop shifting their costs onto Maryland’s hard working taxpayers. After local lawmakers received hundreds of emails supporting Fair-Share, the bill passed, 84-50 and now heads to the Senate.