U.S. Department of Labor

Top Secretary's Day Gifts For Wednesday: Spa and Eats

In honor of Administrative Professionals Day (say that three times fast), numerous establishments are providing quick escapes for those backbones of our offices. Waterfront lunches with views of downtown, indulgent spa escapes and even free cocktails can be found around the city on April 25.This hol ... More >>

Cavalier Hotel and Crab Shack Sued by U.S. Dept. of Labor Over $160,000 in Unpaid Wages

An art deco hotel on South Beach is locked in a battle with the federal government over the kind of accusations that have gotten the 99 percent so riled up recently. The U.S. Department of Labor says the Cavalier Hotel and Crab Shack on Ocean Drive owes its employees $160,000 and that owner Ralph Ab ... More >>

Hey Whole Foods: Stop the Crap

​​The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs is suing Whole Foods in an attempt to "reinstate a former employee with full back wages and benefits after the company allegedly fired the worker for voicing and reporting workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its s ... More >>

Sad, Unsurprising News of the Week: Homestead Farms Screwing Bean Pickers

USDABlood Beans: Do you know how your veggies are harvested?​Not content to pay their employees minimum wage, ten Homestead farms and contractors have been screwing their bean pickers -- actual job description, not an ethnic slur -- out of even that measly pay to the tune of nearly $700,000.As if ... More >>

FAIR-y tales: The immigration saga continues

Starlite Hotel in South Beach Under Investigation for Wage Violations

Lit-up with accusations of wage violations​The Starlite Hotel -- better known as that place next to Wet Willie's where you keep waking-up naked on Sunday mornings -- is under investigation for allegedly underpaying its staff.Ex-employees claim the Starlite Café, a restaurant attached to the hotel ... More >>

DeVito South Beach tip scandal

Hershey Highway Leads To Child Labor

​This past Tuesday was declared I Love Reese's Day by Hershey's -- the makers of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (which reminds me: more news forthcoming soon on Short Order's I Love Short Order Day). The groups Global Exchange, Green America Today, Oasis USA, and The International Labor Rights Forum d ... More >>

Baghdad West

In Opa-locka, gang warfare, drug dealing, and decay are a way of life

Tin Chefs

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

Changing Times

For more than 80 years the Miami Times has been the voice of the black community, but fewer and fewer people are listening

From Bitter to Sweet

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

Going Postal

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

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 Perfect Scam

For the workers life is no carnival, believe it or not

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.

Quit Your Bellyachin'!

The City of Miami's version of the EEOC hasn't upheld a discrimination claim in years

Home Truths

After decades of living month to month in trailer parks, some South Dade migrant workers have found a permanent address

Capitalist or Commie?

How a Miami businessman got rich doing business with Cuba - and lived to shout about it

Following Suits

Fight the Good Fight

Some people accept life's little frustrations. Roy T. Devaney isn't some people.