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Workers at a third Tampa Starbucks file petition to unionize
The store is at the Shoppes of Carrollwood, less than two miles from another unionized Starbucks.
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McKenna Schueler is a freelance journalist based in Tampa, Florida. She regularly writes about labor, politics, policing, and behavioral health. You can find her on Twitter at @SheCarriesOn and send news tips to mkaschueler@gmail.com.
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These formerly incarcerated Florida workers took on lobbyists and won a labor protections fight
Beyond the Bars met with lawmakers to persuade them against the bill, which appeared streamlined for passage.
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Florida child labor bill with ties to DeSantis fails to pass
The bill with ties to Tampa lawmaker Jay Collins sought to roll back certain child labor protections.
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Starbucks workers speak up for coworker in Clearwater allegedly fired over union activity
The company told CL that no employee ‘has been or will be disciplined or separated for supporting, organizing, or otherwise engaging in lawful union activity.’
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Florida Republican repeats false claim that Florida has state OSHA
Abbott’s bill, HB 6033, seeks to repeal Florida’s Labor Pool Act,
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Florida Republicans push law to eliminate tax-funded guaranteed income programs
Lawmakers dubbed the programs ‘socialism’ and ‘a threat to our society.’
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Emails to Tampa Sen. Jay Collins show how governor’s office pushed for child labor rollbacks
The draft language emailed to bill sponsors is nearly identical to legislation that’s currently advancing in the legislature.
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Tampa billboards now showing Canadian campaign about Trump tariffs
The billboards span Florida and at least 12 other states.
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Florida Republican lawmaker wants tighter rules for union elections
But if Florida Rep. Persons-Mulicka had been subject to the same election requirements she’s trying to impose on unions, she wouldn’t be in office today.
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Tampa Republican leads charge to weaken child labor protections in Florida
SB 918 barely squeaked through its first committee stop, with a 5-4 vote in favor.
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Lobbyist for Florida hospitality industry blames restaurant service charges on minimum wage increase
She admitted some restaurants have changed their pay structure to force customers to cover more of their labor costs.
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Workers at another Tampa Starbucks store have voted to unionize
The vote was 11-2 at the South Tampa location on Dale Mabry Highway and Neptune Street.
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Electricians and mechanics at USF vote to join new union after college privatizes their jobs in backroom deal
The next step is to begin bargaining a union contract for the workers.
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Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost walks out of Trump’s speech to Congress in protest
‘The people of this country are seeing right through the lies. We won’t let up.’
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Florida Republicans file bills that would make it harder for government workers to form and keep unions
More than 68,000 public employees in Florida already lost their union representation and contracts as a result of the 2023 state law.
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Florida bill banning governments and schools from flying Pride flags advances
The proposal has been criticized for targeting Pride flags, as well as flags promoting racial justice movements like Black Lives Matter.
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Florida faculty, students urge public to oppose purge of general education courses from state schools
The Florida Board of Governors, a body that oversees the state’s public higher education system, will meet to approve the updated Gen Ed course list on Thursday.
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Rep. Anna Eskamani co-sponsors bill to better regulate state-funded anti-abortion pregnancy centers
Florida’s 2025 legislative session begins March 4, 2025 in Tallahassee and will last 60 days.
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Tampa company is helping Planned Parenthood relaunch another birth control service—vasectomies
VasWeb will provide the no-needle, no-scalpel procedures in Orlando for now.
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Trump likely will abandon Biden’s plan to protect workers from extreme heat, experts say
Community organizations like the Farmworker Association aren’t waiting for politicians to protect workers in their communities.