Breakthru Beverage drivers across Florida vote to unionize

Drivers across six cities, including Orlando, opted to join the Teamsters, who already represent thousands of workers in wine and liquor distribution

by McKenna Schueler September 25, 2024June 30, 2025

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Florida’s minimum wage increases to $13 an hour next week

The state continues to carry out a constitutional amendment that eventually will lead to a $15 minimum wage

by News Service of Florida September 24, 2024December 17, 2024

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Orlando truck drivers vote to unionize, despite company hiring professional union busters

The vote was close: 60-47 with over 90 percent turnout

by McKenna Schueler September 24, 2024April 4, 2025

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Disney Springs restaurant workers highlight their ‘second class’ status, with lower pay and fewer benefits than unionized Disney employees

They vow to continue the fight for a fair process to organize

by McKenna Schueler September 19, 2024July 17, 2025

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Orlando Starbucks workers vote in favor of union

‘I am honored to be joining almost 500 stores in the fight for better wages, fair working conditions and consistent hours’

by McKenna Schueler September 18, 2024May 12, 2025

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Orange County teachers union again declares impasse after unsuccessful contract talks with school district

This is the third time in four years that the union and the district have deadlocked, as schools continue to struggle with teacher vacancies

by McKenna Schueler September 17, 2024August 1, 2025

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AT+T workers in Orlando back on the job after union secures tentative agreement with company

This concludes the longest telecommunications strike in our region’s history

by McKenna Schueler September 16, 2024June 2, 2025

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AT+T workers in Orlando and across the southeast mark nearly one month on strike

Local workers call on the telecommunications company to ‘get serious’

by McKenna Schueler September 13, 2024May 7, 2025

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Starbucks workers in Orlando seek to unionize

The local workers could join more than 10,500 Starbucks workers across the U.S. who have already unionized

by McKenna Schueler September 6, 2024June 2, 2025

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Share your thoughts: Biden admin opens public comment on federal heat protection rule for workers

The proposed rule could help protect approximately 36 million U.S. workers, including millions in Florida, from heat-related injury and death on the job

by McKenna Schueler September 3, 2024August 3, 2025

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Florida abandoned workplace safety for its public employees and attacked their unions instead

The federal government’s landmark workplace safety law has a glaring loophole that excludes Florida’s state and municipal workers.

by McKenna Schueler August 29, 2024July 3, 2025

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‘Brightlies’: Passenger railway Brightline Florida hires union avoidance lawyers to discourage organizing workers

‘I believe the best way to approach these matters is by working together, without a third party involved,’ Brightline’s president told employees over email

by McKenna Schueler August 28, 2024May 13, 2025

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Miami airport car rental agency hired Orlando union busting firm to obstruct organizing effort

Sixt reportedly agreed to pay the firm upwards of $400 per hour for their services

by McKenna Schueler August 26, 2024July 23, 2025

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AT+T workers in Central Florida strike over company’s ‘bad faith’ bargaining in contract talks

Thousands of workers in Florida are fighting for a contract to address lagging pay, health care benefits and more

by McKenna Schueler August 19, 2024April 8, 2025

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Nursing home workers warn of care crisis at long-term facility in Orlando

Staff are being tasked with more work and fewer resources to the detriment of long-term care residents, they say

by McKenna Schueler August 19, 2024July 17, 2025

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‘The company hires these people to basically lie to them’: Trucking company hires union busters to obstruct Florida drivers’ effort to unionize

Records show the company’s paying them $3,750 a day each for the job.

by McKenna Schueler August 15, 2024July 23, 2025

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Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su visits Orlando workers to discuss heat safety on the job

Proposed federal standard sends a clear message to all workers that ‘there will be a floor beneath which you should not have to live and work’

by McKenna Schueler August 9, 2024September 3, 2024

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Brightline Florida attendants seek to unionize in historic organizing effort

The Transport Workers Union has had prior success in talks with Brightline West

by McKenna Schueler August 8, 2024February 27, 2025

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Florida’s historic adjunct union movement collapses in the advent of new anti-union law

An adjunct faculty union at Valencia College formed in 2021 has been decertified by the state, along with all seven other adjunct unions across Florida.

by McKenna Schueler August 7, 2024June 17, 2025