Labor Unions

Have a Coke and a Trial

Seijas-Friendly PAC Returns the Favor

Cane Deserves a Whacking

Not at all melodramatic: transit union plans "funeral procession" for cut bus lines

Photo Finish

Where has the Daniel Azoulay Gallery gone?

A Less Than Perfect 10

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

Say "Uncle!"

Ivey Kearson says he was wrongly fired from his City of Miami job -- and he alleges a conspiracy involving Miller Dawkins's nephew

Shack Attack

Grovites decry kiosks as empty vessels.

BEST SPECTACLE

Demolition of the Everglades Hotel

Blunt Trauma

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

Protest Too Much

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

Letters from the Issue of January 8, 2004

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

Watching the Detectives

Ostensibly neutral legal observers say they were selectively hassled during FTAA

Pick Your Reality

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

Letters from the Issue of November 27, 2003

Anarchists and baseball and parrots and jazz

Calendar of FTAA Events

Anarchists and baseball and parrots and jazz

BEST TV NEWS REPORTER

Jilda Unruh

WPLG-TV (Channel 10)

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?

Ramp Rats' Revenge

Checking luggage? Think long and hard before answering yes to that question at MIA

Resegregation Now, Resegregation Forever!

Are charter-school conversions the vanguard for public education or a scam for resegregating the learning experience and making a lot of money?

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.

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

Honk If You Like Chickens

The Green Party stumbles toward election day

Foiling the Union

Raul Casares, Ingrid's dad, wobbles toward financial success

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

Border Wars

Nearly a dozen people in the local INS office have filed sexual-harassment complaints against the agency

Getting Organized

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

Standing Pat

The school board may vote to name a school after a powerful union boss. That's politics, baby.

Wheels of Fortune

Why are the county's Metrobus drivers such a happy lot? Maybe because some earn more than $90,000 per year.

Iron John

In five years PBA boss John Rivera has transformed his police union into a major political force

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

Token Ridership

Metrobus is Dade's most effective public transportation. But when it comes to funding, the bus system and its patrons always get taken for a ride.

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

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

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

One Union Under Mob

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

Letters

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

Labor Pains

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

Labor Pains

SoBe's rent-a-cops fight for respect, get fired instead.

South Beach's Security Guards Win Union Recognition After Nasty Tussle

Back in July, three-fourths of the security guards on South Beach signed cards asking to unionize -- a move that set off months of nasty fights with their employer, Security Alliance. ​Company leaders bullied employees to find out who had signed up. At meetings, the bosses reminded the guards ... 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 >>

Rick Scott Wins "Worst Governor Ever" Race

​It was real neck and neck at the end, what with the surprise surge by Texas Governor Rick Perry. But Florida's own Rick Scott has been named the "Worst Governor Ever" in a drawn-out, online poll conducted by the Transportation Workers Union of America. With the way things are going right now, it ... More >>