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BALTIMORE ( WJZ ) -- The union representing a Baltimore City Department of Transportation employee who died after being assaulted on the job said they should have been alerted immediately after he was attacked.

They are calling for better protection for city employees.

"As president of a union, to get the call after the fact is unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable," City Union of Baltimore president Antoinette Ryan-Johnson told WJZ. "I was extremely disheartened, and I was disheartened because I was notified on the day of his death. I didn't even know that the incident had happened."

Ryan-Johnson said she never learned about the October 17 attack on 71-year-old Gregory Turnipseed until after he died, the day before Thanksgiving.

"It is extremely

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