Trump's NLRB dismissed 34.7% of unfair labor practice charges by unions between January 1, 2025 and April 29, 2026. In the same period, the NLRB also dismissed 67.4% of charges filed by workers against their employers.

Remember how the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration quietly removed a search option on it site for licensed abortion clinics? Now some abortion providers (e.g. Planned Parenthood) aren't showing up in a search for medical providers at all! www.orlandoweekly.com/news/abortio...

Florida Gov. DeSantis vetoed millions of dollars' worth of state funding requests from Orlando-area lawmakers but kept in another $29.5M for a program to promote anti-abortion centers and $4M for AI software to review eligibility for Florida SNAP benefits www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

Last month, Starbucks workers in Florida's Panhandle, DHL Express drivers & nurses filed petitions to unionize in Florida. In Florida's public sector, 32 workers unionized, 9,180 workers recertified their unions, and 0 workers decertified their unions caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...

There’s something endearing about communicating with kind, Gen X/Boomer sources who add an :) at the end of messages instead of a 🙂

DeSantis’ latest erection: A new Abe Lincoln statue in Central Florida www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

Retail and service workers employed by a contractor at Miami International Airport have voted to authorize a strike, if needed amid the busy travel season, to secure something closer to a living wage in the Miami metro @unitehere.org www.wlrn.org/business/202...

FYI: Unions still exist at Florida’s New College @afscme.bsky.social in spite of efforts by the state to eliminate them (A faculty union, United Faculty of Florida, is still certified on campus, too, despite the exodus of professors since DeSantis’s hostile takeover of the liberal arts college)

Democratic socialist and union organizer Oliver Larkin swayed delegates at the Florida AFL-CIO's annual June endorsement convention against incumbent Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz, notably resulting in a 'no endorsement' in the race. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

A new law taking effect in Florida tomorrow will require restaurants to be more transparent about mandatory service charges and auto-gratuities added to customer checks. The question of the enforcing body, and the strength of that enforcement, is hazy. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

Starbucks workers at a store in Florida’s Panhandle have filed a petition to unionize with @sbworkersunited.org

Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a progressive Democrat running for Orlando mayor next year, told me at a press conference last week that she would explore options to establish a city program to combat wage theft, if elected (since the state doesn't really do that) www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

Cooks at a Disney EPCOT restaurant run by The Patina Group, a third party operator, have accused their employer of wage theft and threatened to file a lawsuit (w/ the help of their union and a FL AG candidate as legal counsel) if their employer doesn't pay up: www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

Union members from Tampa Bay among workers from across the globe at Labor Notes conference www.cltampa.com/news/union-m...

The Patina Group, a restaurant operator at Disney Springs in Florida, unlawfully fired an employee in retaliation for her union activism, a NLRB regional director complaint alleges. Patina denies the allegations and now argues the NLRB is unconstitutional www.orlandoweekly.com/news/disney-...

“I just came from a meeting on organizing in right-to-work states, and Florida workers aren’t alone in defeating anti-labor measures," said retired teacher Adam Shils of St. Pete, Florida. “We’ll get some help from our brothers and sisters here in Chicago.” www.cltampa.com/news/union-m...

Needless to say, story to come for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social

Damn, it’s depressing to see just me and one TV news reporter at a press conference about workers’ rights, involving a tourism employer in Orlando, Florida all places

A new roundup of reported activity from Florida’s “union avoidance” consultants, who reported union-busting gigs targeting auto workers, healthcare workers, and truck drivers among others: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/busted-wha...

Every time I go to Labor Notes, I meet unionists from Florida that I really should have already met in-person lol — somehow requires traveling to Chicago to make it happen!

Least surprising news of the day: Public records I obtained for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social show an anti-union think tank was behind an anti-union bill introduced in the Florida Legislature this year that (more surprisingly) didn't pass www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/f...

Least surprising news of the day: Public records I obtained for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social show an anti-union think tank was behind an anti-union bill introduced in the Florida Legislature this year that (more surprisingly) didn't pass www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/f...

Made it. My brain stopped functioning several hours ago so I took the wrong hotel shuttle from the airport, but the brisk air (and short walk to the hotel I actually booked a room at) reminded me of what it’s like to feel alive

Flight delay of 4 hours on my way to Labor Notes means it’s officially time for an airport Drink

Last time I went to Labor Notes (2024), I ended up writing up most of this story on the flight there. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

Blue-collar city workers on Florida’s Space Coast have voted to form a new union with the @ibewinternational.bsky.social after the state labor relations agency decertified their old one www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/b...

Made a new logo for the Substack -- feel free to read and subscribe if you're interested in Florida labor news caringclassrevolt.substack.com

Always read @shecarrieson.bsky.social

A prominent figure in Orlando’s punk community has made the difficult decision to self-deport to Jamaica after being arrested & detained by ICE last month. Several benefits shows have been organized by bands since to help cover his business and legal costs www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

I told a reporter a story about our university trying to intimidate us in a meeting to engage in anticipatory compliance, read about poking the bear floridatrib.org/2026/06/03/g...

Annoying that this woman is also a MCR fan — unless that was a lie, too? www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Congratulations to @richiejfloyd.bsky.social on his reelection to St. Pete City Council! Floridians reelected Richie because of his stalwart advocacy for tenants’ rights, reproductive rights, and working class issues. Socialism wins again in the South, proving that DSA can win anywhere.

Florida would like to free you from the tyranny of property taxes so that you can more easily live in hell. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-want-...

New roundup of organizing activity and union election results in Florida's public and private sectors, feat. Gen Z activists, Tampa airport workers, city employees who organized a new union after the state decertified their old one and more caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...

… although the $1.7 billion figure captured in LaborLab and EPI’s new report is striking, “the deeper story is about the infrastructure corporate America has built: a well-funded industry working in legislators’ rooms and in the workplace.” …

Disney World Cake Bake Shop faces lawsuits over alleged wage theft

A bakery and restaurant on Disney World property, operated by a third-party establishment, is facing multiple lawsuits from former servers and bartenders over alleged wage theft @orlandoweekly.bsky.social www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

“Ask a polluter, politician, or even an admiring journalist trying to keep pace—it’s tough to outwork Amy Goodman,” via @cltampabay.bsky.social Psyched to catch this film feat. Amy Goodman of @democracynow.org (and a Q&A to follow!) in Tampa next week www.cltampa.com/news/these-a...

The ‘union avoidance’ industry is worth $1.7 billion. Florida-based union busters are cashing in. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/t...

Speaking of union busting, a new roundup of reported activity by union avoidance consultants/firms based in Florida includes $400/hour+ union busting for Amazon, the University of Maryland Medical System, a California assisted living community and more: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/busted-wha...

Amazon alone reported more than $26 million in spending on union avoidance consultants in 2025, including consultants who are based in or subcontracted through firms based in Florida.

U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion a year to fight union organizing efforts, according to a new report from @epi.org and @laborlab.bsky.social, via @msainato.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Some of these guys work jobs that are eleven-and-a-half hours long. They do four round trips, six round trips. They’re going back and forth like a pinball with barely time to eat or piss.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-the-lir...

Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger vetoed a bill that would have restored collective bargaining rights for public sector workers in Virginia, remedying a Jim Crow era ban. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Was just informed today that restaurant workers employed by Tampa International Airport contractor SSP America are now unionized with @unitehere362.bsky.social after certifying their union through a card-check www.cltampa.com/news/union-p...

Hundreds of agricultural workers in South Florida marched on May 1, International Workers' Day, in support of stronger labor protections for nursery workers, via The Miami Times www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/n...

Staff of the progressive Gen Z-led nonprofit Youth Action Fund announced last Friday that they were forming a union with the @cwaunion.bsky.social in Orlando. Founder Cameron Driggers, 21, confirmed today leadership will grant the union voluntary recognition www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

🚨 FL’s students deserve better—so we’re taking it to court. ⚖️ Parents, educators & community leaders are suing the FL Dept. of Ed for failing our public schools. We spoke up. They ignored it. Now we fight back for our students. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4urkROh