The Rideshare Risk: Safety and Transit in the age of Uber

by Dwight H. Mattingly, ATU Local 1577February 22, 2017March 6, 2017

What’s concerning is that corporate app backers neglect to highlight an important fact to riders. The reason they can offer such competitive rates is because they are actively exploiting loopholes that allow them to evade traditional driver training and screening requirements that ensure a rider’s safety.

Business • Community • Elections

Keith Perry on Florida’s Water: “It’s Not a Crisis”

by Jonathan Webber, Florida Conservation VotersOctober 25, 2016November 4, 2016

Florida’s decades-long water crisis is well documented and getting worse.

Business • Community • Elections

Vote NO on Utility-Backed Amendment 1

by Aliki Moncrief, Florida Conservation VotersOctober 13, 2016October 25, 2016

A wolf in sheep’s clothing, Amendment 1 is a slick, misleading, multi-million-dollar advertising campaign designed to unfairly limit solar energy production and maintain the existing monopoly on electricity controlled by only a few large corporations.

Business • Community • Elections

Rep. Dana Young’s Ties to Mosaic Fertilizer Spell Disaster for Florida’s Water

by Jonathan Webber, Florida Conservation VotersSeptember 22, 2016October 12, 2016

This behavior follows the larger trend where special interests pollute at will while everyday Floridians pay the price. Why? Because big polluters don’t have to worry about state lawmakers holding them accountable. In this case, it’s Rep. Dana Young (R-Tampa)

Business • Taxes and Economy

Income Increase In Census Report Is A Boon For Small Business

by Stephen Rouzer, Main Street AllianceSeptember 15, 2016September 22, 2016

Small businesses have already begun to feel the impact on their bottom line as incomes surged to near pre-recession levels. The boost in household income is one factor in recently reported increases in consumer spending, particularly in the retail and food service sectors.

Business • Community • Labor

Verizon Strike Solidarity in the South

by Curtis Hierro, Central Florida AFL-CIOMay 11, 2016July 20, 2016

Verizon is trying to change workers schedules and cut their pay not out of financial hardship, but blatant corporate greed.

Business • Community

Inhumane: My Experience at a For-Profit Immigrant Detention Center

by Yennifer Mateo, Volusia-Flagler AFL-CIOMay 3, 2016May 11, 2016

I went on a trip with a local faith based advocacy group to visit immigrants being held at Corrections Corporation of America’s (CCA) Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA. What I witnessed was truly inhumane.

Business • Labor

Is Your Boss a Wage Grinch?

by Aaron Carmella, West Central Florida Federation of LaborDecember 9, 2015January 11, 2016

Stealing from employees is just wrong but that doesn’t stop a boss who’s a Grinch. Not only do they make off with your hard-earned cash but they steal your hope of ever recovering it too.

Business • Labor

Small businesses: Making the case for livable wages

by Ann Vanek-DasovichNovember 10, 2015December 9, 2015

In fact, new research finds that the benefits most sought by workers actually profit businesses, leading many small businesses to embrace the very policies that big businesses, and their cache of lobbyists, disparage.

Business • Taxes and Economy

On Labor Day, Talk About #RaisetheWage

by Molly Moon Neitzel, business ownerSeptember 4, 2015September 17, 2015

Labor Day not only reminds us of the struggles American workers endured throughout history, but also of the ongoing struggle for fair wages in Florida...