The death of a Baltimore sanitation worker in the heat on the job one year ago this week exposed many alarming problems, including a lack of health insurance for more than 130 frontline solid waste workers.
Baltimore City Comptroller Bill Henry proposed a simple fix: Enroll everyone.
But the mayor’s representatives voted it down, citing ongoing union contract negotiations.
Employee’s on-the-job death
Ronald Silver II’s family has been fighting to make things better for his colleagues since he collapsed and died after a day picking up trash in the sweltering heat in August 2024…