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Hasner, local AFL-CIO prez square off
On today’s Palm Beach Post letters page, state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, rips the labor-backed Employee Free Choice Act while local AFL-CIO President Pat Emmert rips Hasner.
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Union deal with Tri-Rail, transportation officials means Senate approval likely
A last-minute deal between the AFL-CIO, Tri-Rail and state transportation officials has satisfied union leaders that their workers won’t be laid off under a bill now being debated in the Senate. The...
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Crist: AFL-CIO endorsement ‘would have been nice’ but…
Gov. Charlie Crist, now an independent U.S. Senate candidate, said he doesn’t think not getting the AFL-CIO’s endorsement will hurt him, but “it would have been nice.” The AFL-CIO, the state’s largest...
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Democratic-allied groups call for Scott to veto elections bill
Add elections advocates Wednesday to a growing roster of organizations urging Republican Gov. Rick Scott to wield his veto pen. Environmentalists have already weighed-in, asking the first-year governor...
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FEA leads union lawsuit to overturn 3 percent employee payments to retirement
The state’s largest teachers’ union joined with other labor groups Monday in suing to overturn a new 3 percent payroll contribution for the 655,000 workers who belong to the Florida Retirement System,...
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While still scraping barnacles, Scott gets better news on approval rating
Gov. Rick Scott gets something like good news on his approval ratings in a new survey by Suffolk University and WSVN-TV-Miami. The poll shows 42 percent of voters like the job he’s doing as governor —...
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