Local organizations working to keep essential workers safe through pandemic
By: WMAR Staff | WMAR Baltimore Channel 2 ABC | January 12, 2021 BALTIMORE — Local organizations are working to keep essential workers safe through the pandemic. Members of the Baltimore NAACP, SEIU 1199, United Food and Commercial Workers and more are teaming up to form the coalition to protect essential workers. They kicked off the initiative in Baltimore Tuesday morning, handing out PPE and hand sanitizer to more than 2,000 workers. The coalition is backing the Maryland Essential Workers Protection Act. It requires employers to provide workers with a safe workspace, PPE, and emergency pandemic action plans that include sanitation…