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Florida may turn down Trump’s plan to increase jobless aid

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Republican and Democratic legislators alike say they don’t understand why Florida hasn’t acted yet. TALLAHASSEE — Although Florida has some of the lowest unemployment payments in the nation, Gov. Ron DeSantis remains undecided about whether to ask for the stripped-down federal benefits recently authorized by President Donald Trump. Eleven states have applied for a $400 …

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Working Life Episode 194: Two Hollywood Tales—A Union Win in California, A Florida Progressive Aims to Fire Debbie Wasserman-Schulz

South Florida AFL-CIO Rallies for Unemployment Insurance

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of those stories every day. Here’s today’s story. The South Florida AFL-CIO, led by President Jeffrey Mitchell (TWU), partnered with Rise Up Florida! …

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Migrant farmworkers are headed north from Florida, afraid of COVID-19 but with little choice

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By max cyril

Florida is hitting one daily high in positive coronavirus tests after another, and now some of the people in the hardest-hit communities are heading out for other states. Not wealthy snowbirds, but migrant farmworkers, who follow growing seasons north for the summer. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), which fights for better wages and working conditions for farmworkers …

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Florida Passes Law That Bans Discriminating Against Pregnant Women In Public

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Last week, the Florida legislature passed a bill banning discrimination against pregnant women at work as well as in public places like restaurants or hotels. The bill amends the state’s Civil Rights Act by adding pregnancy to race, sex, and physical disability as protected classes. It got unanimous support in the state senate and near-unanimous …

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Failed By Florida

Leave a Comment / healthcare / By max cyril

Although Marie Museau, a nursing assistant at Palmetto Hospital in Hialeah, Fla., works as a healthcare provider, she does not have health insurance. She and thousands of other healthcare workers in the Sunshine State spend their days attending to the health of others, yet cannot afford to visit a doctor themselves. Museau makes too much …

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Florida Governor Inflates Cost Of Medicaid Expansion By 2,500% To Avoid Implementing Obamacare

Leave a Comment / economy, health care, workplace issues / By max cyril

Internal email messages uncovered by Health News Florida reveal that Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) is knowingly citing inaccurate cost estimates to justify his refusalto expand Florida’s Medicaid program. Though the governor’s office is fully aware that the numbers are wrong, Scott continues to use them anyway, the documents show. Florida, which has one of the …

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Broward Is Second Florida County to Address Wage Theft

Leave a Comment / accountability, benefits, bonuses, Compensation, economy, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

This week, Broward County—one of the most populous counties in South Florida—became the second county in the state to pass a local wage theft ordinance, joining Miami-Dade County. In a 7-2 vote, the Board of County Commissioners voted to create the new law to deal with a significant and growing problem in Florida. Wage theft …

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Florida Leads Race to the Bottom on Unemployment Compensation

Leave a Comment / economy, unemployment / By max cyril

Americans faced with a tough economy face significant struggles when they lose their jobs. Since the 1930s, workers who are without jobs through no fault of their own have had the safety net of the unemployment compensation program to serve as a backup plan until they get back on their feet. Under new rules implemented …

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