Category: Labor
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New Florida immigration law slammed for trapping indispensable migrant farmworkers in a field of fear
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
As Florida’s governor tries to demonize and evict immigrants – once even shipping them to an island off Massachusetts – farmworker advocates are fighting back in Miami federal court. -
Miami Herald newsroom votes on whether to unionize amid divisive charges, countercharges
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
UPDATE: Nov. 20. The newsrooms of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have voted in favor of unionizing, 66-24. The new union’s name is One Herald Guild. -
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Miami-Dade Schools, union push costly private loan program for lowest paid workers
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
A union representing the lowest-paid Miami-Dade public schools employees has endorsed a proposed private loan program for its members that would charge 24 percent interest with the school district collecting loan repayments by deducting them from employee paychecks. -
Florida’s coming war on collective bargaining for state employees
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
When Miami state Rep. Carlos Trujillo was interviewed on Spanish language radio station Actualidad 1020 he boldly proclaimed that Republicans will ask voters in 2018 to eliminate collective bargaining for state employees from the Florida Constitution. -
New union deal at Miami-Dade Schools to begin push toward $15 hourly minimum wage
By William Gjebre
FloridaBulldog.org
A tentative agreement between Miami-Dade Public Schools and the union representing its general employees raises the minimum pay for some of district’s lowest paid workers to $10 an hour, marking what a top union official says is the start of a drive to obtain a minimum hourly wage of $15. -
Latino workers dying at higher rates in job accidents, report shows
By Stuart Silverstein
FairWarning
As Latino workers take on more and more of the nation’s toughest and dirtiest jobs, they increasingly are paying for it with their lives.
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