AFL-CIO

Have a Coke and a Trial

Seijas-Friendly PAC Returns the Favor

Photo Finish

Where has the Daniel Azoulay Gallery gone?

News Roundup

LocalVice President Biden tried to butter up reps from the biggest union in all the land, AFL-CIO, so they'd support the stimulus bill during a meeting in Miami Beach yesterday. [AP]He also announced $8.4 billion from the stimulus package will benefit transportation, and called the Miami Intermodal ... More >>

A Less Than Perfect 10

Hard times for the one and only union at Miami's one and only Channel 10

End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty

The Republican brothers are headed for defeat, and Cuban-American politics will change forever.

More Bad News for Chief Timoney

Miami's head cop gets sued over FTAA. Plus: The Bicycle Avenger wins the day.

Wicked, Part 2

Need some advice on a no-show job? Just ask the commish.

Never Mind the Ballots

It is South Florida's YET-to-be-registered immigrant voters who could swing the 2004 presidential election

Protest Too Much

Tongues still wag over FTAA arrests, but does the Civilian Investigative Panel have teeth?

Before the Bulldozer Bites

Developers circle a swath of land in Homestead as a familiar face reappears in the guise of a real estate lobbyist

Watching the Detectives

Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

Happy Campers

You gotta fight ... for your right to party

Direct Action Reaction

Provoking a cop doesn't exactly improve working conditions for Latin America's poor

Pick Your Reality

Either FTAA protesters viciously assaulted police, or police viciously assaulted protesters

Dangerous Medicine

For street medics tending to FTAA protesters, neutrality was no match for brutality

Letters from the Issue of November 27, 2003

Anarchists and baseball and parrots and jazz

Mixed Signals

Looking for music to accompany your protest? Expect the unexpected.

Calendar of FTAA Events

Looking for music to accompany your protest? Expect the unexpected.

By the Hour

It was easy for the county to pass a law requiring workers to earn a living wage. It wasn't so easy making it stick.

Tough as Nails

Three years after the immigrant workers at Aljoma Lumber voted to unionize, they still don't have a contract. Why? José Lamas refuses to give them one.

The Fight of Their Lives

Pugilists and stars hope to unionize the sweet science

Donkey Demise

Miami-Dade's Democratic Party is a shambles. Blame Joe Geller, candidate and chairman.

Don't Look for the Union Label

For two years Goya Foods has waged a war to prevent its workers from unionizing. Now things are starting to get really ugly.

Principles vs. Politics

For two years Goya Foods has waged a war to prevent its workers from unionizing. Now things are starting to get really ugly.

Letters

For two years Goya Foods has waged a war to prevent its workers from unionizing. Now things are starting to get really ugly.

The Haunting of Alex Daoud, Part 2

The disgraced former Miami Beach mayor comes out swinging at his former friends and associates

The Old School of Power

He has been enormously influential for 34 years, yet Pat Tornillo -- politically astute leader of Dade's teachers' union -- remains a mystery to most

Letters 1

He has been enormously influential for 34 years, yet Pat Tornillo -- politically astute leader of Dade's teachers' union -- remains a mystery to most

Union Mad

Dave Lawrence really wants you to know what he thinks of those fiendish Detroit newspaper strikers

United They Stand

Labor organizer Monica Russo helps Dade's nursing home workers form a more perfect union

Odor in the Court

By state law, judges get elected just like politicians -- a system so idiotic it's criminal. Will somebody please reproach the bench?

Letters

By state law, judges get elected just like politicians -- a system so idiotic it's criminal. Will somebody please reproach the bench?

Labor Pains

AFL-CIO union organizers are knocking on doors at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and the nurses are flinging them wide open