Jobs and Labor

Rick Scott's Job Czar Hunting Deutsch Quits After Collecting Unemployment Benefits While Traveling Through Europe

Rick Scott tapped Hunting Deutsch to lead the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity earlier this year, a position some refer to as the "Job Czar." Which is kind of ironic, considering Deutsch hadn't been able to find himself a job for nearly three years prior to the appointment. After losing hi ... More >>

Reader Mail: Sorry, Obama, Cubans Aren't Liberals

LGBT Activists to Protest Obama's Event in Miami Beach Tonight

Barack Obama may have been the first sitting American president to announce his personal support of gay marriage. He may have repealed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, and allowed gay citizens to serve openly in the armed forces. He may have been the first president to appoint a Transgendered per ... More >>

University of Miami Med School to Lay Off 800 Employees

The Miami economy got a shock today when the county's largest private employer, the University of Miami, filed a notice that it plans to lay off 800 employees from its medical school. The move comes two weeks after university president Donna Shalala said the medical school was planning on cutting ba ... More >>

Florida Teen Tries to Rob Porn Store With Gun, Gets Talked Into Filling Out a Job Application Instead

​Cody Conner, 17, walked into an adult novelty store in Debary with a loaded gun and intended to stick-up the cashier. Instead, the employee talked Conner out of the robbery, and actually convinced the kid to fill out a job application.Of course Conner won't be getting the job. The employee turned ... More >>

Miami is the Worst City in America to Find a Job

​Looking for a job? Maybe you should also be looking for a new place to live outside South Florida. Not one, but two job listings sites have run the numbers and declared that the Miami metro area is the worst place to find a job in America. Sure, there may be places with higher unemployment, b ... More >>

The Fresh Market Holds Job Fair in Miami Beach Today

The Fresh Market is holding a job fair today.​The Fresh Market, mecca for yuppies on a food bender, is having a job fair today in anticipation of its new store opening in Miami Beach.The Fresh Market is having a job fair today from 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. at the Miami Beach Resort and Spa. The company is ... More >>

Cuba's new entrepreneurs ponder their future

Florida Violated Its Own Constitution by Not Raising Minimum Wage

​Workers being paid the minimum wage can expect to see a six-cent bump in their hourly pay come June 1st after a judge ruled that Florida was violating its own constitution by not raising the rate for 2011. That may not seem like a lot, but it does add up to $124.80 a year for workers putting in 4 ... More >>

Rick Scott Flip Flops on Collective Bargaining

​In a stunningly speedy political flip-flop, Florida Governor Rick Scott has completely changed his stance on whether or not unions should have collective bargaining rights. He's fallen in step with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's anti-union stance. What made Scott change his mind so fast? Well, ... More >>

Rick Scott Promises Not to Screw Unions as Bad as Wisconsin's Scott Walker Wants To

​On Sunday, The New York Times editorial board slammed Rick Scott's decision to kill Florida's federally funded high-speed rail system and suggested he was caught up in some high-speed race to out-pander to Tea Partiers faster than other Republican governors. Though, there's one governor Scott app ... More >>

Burger King Lays Off 261 Local Workers Right Before the Holidays

The takeover of Burger King by private equity firm 3G Capital continues to have an aftertaste for longtime employees worse than their cardboard-y fries. The Miami-based, quick-meat chain has laid off 413 workers company wide, with about 261 of those coming out of South Florida. The brunt of those la ... More >>

Happy Holidays, You're Unemployed

Aflcio via Flickr ​You'd never guess it by the numbers retail stores pulled in over the busiest shopping weekend of the year, but the National unemployment rate is 9.6 percent. And by month's end, close to 2 million will have lost their extended unemployment benefits, according MSNBC.com. In ... More >>

Miami Herald to Cut 49 More Jobs

​It seemed for a while that the worst for the Miami Herald may be over, but the paper just announced that they're cutting 49 jobs across the Miami Herald Media Company. Nine of those positions will come from the Herald's newsroom, with another six coming from El Nuevo Herald's newsroom.

Miami Executive Chefs Among Highest Paid

Revisorweb via wikimedia commons​A salary survey of 1,400 culinary professionasl by StarChefs.com found that Miami and New York executive chefs were paid more in 2009 than their counterparts in other U.S. cities. The average salary for an executive chef here was reported at $101,400 - not far from ... More >>

Big Money on Top at Miami-Dade County Hall

When in doubt, pay the chiefs and forget the workers.

Obama, Biden Snub Manny Diaz's U.S. Conference of Mayors Going-Away Party

Miami Mayor Manny Diaz's time as head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors has come to an end, and usually the sitting American president sends administration officials to the conference -- this year held in Providence, Rhode Island -- but the Obama administration pulled out. The reason: Providence May ... More >>

Herald Fires Copy Editor, But Keeps Him On to Blog About It

Shack Attack

Grovites decry kiosks as empty vessels.

What's in a Name? Lots, When It's 'Hispanic' Vs. 'Latino'

Have a Coke and a Trial

Blunt Trauma

Pan American Hospital, an icon in Cuban Miami, is fighting for life as it battles its own employees

Pick Your Reality

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

BEST TV NEWS REPORTER

Jilda Unruh

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The Firefighter Who Burned His Colleagues

You may call it embezzlement, but charitable union officials have a more polite term: Misspending

Going Postal

Is Judy Johnson trying to save APWU Local 172? Or is she part of the problem?

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.

Best Quote

"It's business as usual here."

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.

Loud, Proud, and Out of Work

Miami-Dade bus driver Ezell Robinson has taken issue with his bosses and his union leadership, which may explain why he's now unemployed

The Fight of Their Lives

Pugilists and stars hope to unionize the sweet science

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.

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of May 4, 2000

Nursing a Grudge

The Jackson Memorial nurses' union is troubled by controversy about everything from bad accounting to homophobia

Getting Organized

For Homestead's working poor, the thought of joining a union can be frightening. So how do you fight the fear?

Goodwill? Try Ill Will

Mizerine St. Fort once worked for Goodwill. Now she's suing the venerable nonprofit.

Principles vs. Politics

Schoolyard Bully

Metro-Dade Community College president Eduardo Padron has won a reputation as a take-charge leader -- and an intellectual thug

Freedom of Speech in Handcuffs

Miami police use an obsolete law to arrest two union activists. Too bad they didn't know the ordinance was being taken out of the code.

Downsize This!

Michael Moore says Borders bookstore hates him because he's a pro-union gadfly. They say he's blowing everything out of proportion.

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

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

A Less Than Perfect 10

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

Working for the Dade County Clerk's Office has its advantages, as long as you know how to keep your mouth shut and kneel when ordered. Otherwise, expect to be crushed

Tough Guys Die Hard

When Miami Beach's top administrator decided to tangle with the city's top cop, everyone knew it would get rough. It's been very rough.

Guns N' Hoses

Dan Corcoran might be the first Metro firefighter ever demoted for carrying a derringer, but is he the only one who ever packed a pistol?

Labor Pains

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

There Ought to Be a Law

The Unwanted Touch