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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
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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
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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
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DeSantis appoints ‘pro-life’ radiologist to the Florida Board of Medicine
Steven Christie, also an attorney, authored a book called ‘Speaking for the Unborn’
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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.
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Orange County approves plan to wipe out more than $400 million in residents’ medical debt
The medical debt relief plan will be funded by $4.5 million in unspent federal pandemic relief funds.
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Blumhouse, Demon Queens and all the other scare zones coming to Orlando for Halloween Horror Nights 2024
Universal has finally revealed all the haunted houses and scare zones at the 2024 fright fest
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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’
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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
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Florida state officials seek crackdown on university courses containing antisemitic or ‘anti-Israel’ material
The State University System’s chancellor emailed university presidents last Friday to explain the new directive
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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.
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The number of anti-abortion political committees targeting Florida’s Amendment 4 is increasing
Since May 1, it has been illegal to have an abortion in Florida after six weeks of pregnancy
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Hurricane Debby will be an ‘ongoing threat’ over coming days, says Florida Gov. DeSantis
‘We have seen and will continue to see flooding in every part of the state of Florida’
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Orlando’s Adventures on Tap hosts tabletop roleplaying gaming for charity
Dungeons, dragons and donations
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Is another far-right candidate running for Orange County School Board in 2024? Here’s what we know
Jeni Grieger is facing off against Stephanie Vanos in a contentious campaign for an open seat on the Orange County School Board.
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Winter Haven contractor fined $161K by Department of Labor for exposing workers to potentially deadly falls
This comes after Florida lawmakers approved legislation this year that loosens child labor rules in residential construction.
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Starbucks workers union asks for community support this weekend in fight for a fair contract
The Orlando metro area has one unionized Starbucks location in Oviedo
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Discussion questions for Pulse Memorial committee appear to be lifted from lesson plan for grade-school children
Dr. Larry Schooler, who chose the discussion questions, said he drew upon best practices from ‘a variety of sources.’
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Orlando PR firm that was paid to kill local rent control effort now going after Florida’s pro-pot amendment
Consensus Communications launched their opposition campaign to Florida’s Amendment 3 last Friday.