AFSCME pushes for investigation following death of overworked Florida member

AFSCME Florida is demanding an investigation after an overworked member died in a car accident. On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Hawlen Ebanks, a veteran state employee at Sunland Center in Marianna, drove in to work on her 82nd day straight without a day off – and her eighth day in a row of 16-hour shifts, according to a review of her timesheets. As Ebanks entered the grounds of the Sunland facility, she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a tree. The 64-year-old senior residential unit specialist, who was employed by Florida’s […]