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Jobs and Labor

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Bankrupt Twinkie Manufacturer Warns of Hundreds of Florida Layoffs

    Hostess Brands, the makers of Twinkies, Ho Hos, and Ding Dongs that declared bankruptcy in January, has filed paperwork with the state warning of at least 479 potential layoffs all over the state.And it's not just a Florida thing -- reports of layoff warnings are coming out all over the country ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Broward Teachers Union President Under Investigation; Board Members Split on Action

    Broward Teachers UnionPat Santeramo​Pat Santeramo, president of the Broward Teacher's Union, is currently under investigation by the Broward State Attorney's Office and the Broward Sheriff's Office, according to a spokesman from the State Attorney's Office.Additionally, a spokesman from the Browar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Florida Unemployment Rate Finally Decreases Back to May Level

    stuffunemployedpeoplelike.com​Florida's unemployment rate decreased .1 percent to 10.6 percent in the month of September after three months of no change, putting the state back to the same rate it was at in May.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Rick Scott and Private Prisons Engaging in "Pay to Play" Politics, Teamsters Complaint Alleges

    ​Florida politicians received nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from two private prison corporations last election cycle -- GEO Group and Corrections Corporation of America -- and an ethics complaint filed by the Teamsters union yesterday claims $30,000 of those contributions that went t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2011

    Labor Pains: Nova Southeastern Unlawfully Suppressed Union, NLRB Determines

    Nova's custodial workers tried to organize. ​More than four years after Nova Southeastern University got flak for union busting, the National Labor Relations Board has recently sided with a group of former custodial workers who were harassed by the college's higher-ups when they tried to organize. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Allen West, AKA Harriet Tubman, Sent His Own Brother to "Plantation Overseer" Maxine Waters

    Harriet Tubman​As you may remember, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" -- said the other day that he was starting his own "underground railroad" to get black people away from the "21st-century plantation."Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2011

    Losing Battle: Fort Lauderdale's Most Elite School -- Pine Crest -- Reels From 99 Days of Ill-Fated Leadership

    Harriet Tubman​As you may remember, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" -- said the other day that he was starting his own "underground railroad" to get black people away from the "21st-century plantation."Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    A Tour of Gov. Rick Scott's Dirtiest Deeds

    Harriet Tubman​As you may remember, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" -- said the other day that he was starting his own "underground railroad" to get black people away from the "21st-century plantation."Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2011

    Rick Scott's Flak Provides "Proof" of Job Creation

    bc.edu​Gov. Rick Scott keeps talking about how he's creating jobs left and right, but the evidence has been a little hard to come across.Good thing we came across a tweet from the governor's Twitter account that claimed his office has proof he's been getting Florida back to work:"Passed this s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    Florida Teachers Union Hops on the "Sue Rick Scott" Train

    menwithfoilhats.com​In the fourth recent lawsuit targeted at policies of Gov. Rick Scott, the Florida Education Association is now suing over a 3 percent pay cut to the salaries of teachers and other school workers.According to a news release from the union, the lawsuit was entered today in circui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Broward Teachers Union Protesting Tonight Over 1,400 Teacher Firings, Budget Spending

    ​The K.C. Wright Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale will play home to a lot of angry teachers tonight.Broward Teachers Union communications director John Ristow tells New Times that tonight's protest -- geared toward teacher layoffs and alleged budget mismanagement by the Broward School Board -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Florida Public School Teachers' Salaries Among Lowest In The Nation

    ​Yesterday the Sun-Sentinel ran a story about how some painters and grass cutters who work for the Broward County School District make more money than highly educated teachers with decades of experience. Well, it may get worse. The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy released its State o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    AWF Gives Florida's Labor Climate a C; Hooray, We're Passing!

    FlickrThe red badge of honor​Ever get news that you know is supposed to be bad, but it's actually kind of awesome? Like when your parents are really solemn about getting divorced but you're like, woo, two Christmases? This is one of those times: The Alliance for Worker Freedom released its biannua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    No-Bid Contract for Pines Outsourcing Goes to Favored Contractor

    Courtesy of Greensource Power Systems Inc.Shawn Hiester's companies have already earned millions from Pines.​The founder of the private firm set to receive a controversial, no-bid outsourcing contract in the City of Pembroke Pines has a long history of raking in millions of dollars in business fro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Teachers Union on Holy Water Incident: "What's Alleged Did Not Occur"

    Flickr: Der_Kaiser​The Broward Teachers Union expects that two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach will be "fully exonerated" after school officials finish investigating a religious argument that occurred in a classroom March 11 in which an atheist claimed that two Christian teach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Is This What Rock Bottom Looks Like?

    Graph: CalculatedRiskblog.com​Let me try to put a positive spin on a super-depressing graph. From the blog Calculated Risk, the graph above shows the high and low unemployment rates from each state since 1976, along with a red line for the current jobless rate. Yes, we're living in the most depres ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Palm Beach Post Ad Highlights Plight of its Own Axed Employees

    ​In its bizarre, ongoing effort to depress people into buying the daily newspaper, the Palm Beach Post has been running a series of ads about the economy.One ad highlighted job anxiety, unintentionally drawing attention to the more than 300 jobs lost at the Post in the past couple of years.The lat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    La Palma Lays Off Three People, Leaving Skeleton Staff

    ​La Palma, the weekly Spanish-language spinoff of the Palm Beach Post, quietly laid off three people yesterday, leaving a skeleton staff at the paper.Insiders say the three employees -- page designer Sergio Patrucco, copyeditor Claudia Moscoso, and reporter/copyeditor Jonathan Muñoz -- were calle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Miami Herald Cuts 24 Jobs; Publisher Says "Conditions Remain Challenging"

    South Florida's fish wrappers: endangered species.​The Miami Herald is cutting 24 jobs throughout the company and reducing the hours of workers involved in printing and delivering the paper, Publisher David Landsberg announced in an email this morning.Seven people will lose their jobs in the Heral ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Cheers to the New Bulldog Blog in Town

    Flickr user: sabianmaggyThere's a new bulldog in town.​After 30 years in the South Florida news business, Dan Christensen isn't about to let one small layoff stop him from mining the bottomless pit of Broward County corruption.The veteran Daily Business Review and Miami Herald reporter has launche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Fired WPLG Anchor Explains "Career Suicide" in The Daily Beast

    Charles Perez, the WPLG anchor who has filed a discrimination suit against the South Florida ABC affiliate, wrote in a Sunday column in The Daily Beast that the station believed "my profile as a gay man, especially if I were to have kids and, God forbid, get married, would render me less promotable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2009

    On Front Lines of Poverty War, Conflict Between Broward Agencies

    With Florida experiencing record unemployment rates, it's critical that the nonprofit agencies helping low-income people find jobs get along with one another. But the stress has begun to fray relations between at least two Broward County agencies with an important role in that mission.Positive Image ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Midwest Hoops Legend Leaving South Florida

    C. StilesThomas, pictured with his two daughters and their friends from their Pembrokes Pines neighborhoodDeon Thomas, the former University of Illinois basketball star who had retired in South Florida and who started a new career coaching junior varsity at The University School in Fort Lauderdale, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    Life Orientation

    C. StilesThomas, pictured with his two daughters and their friends from their Pembrokes Pines neighborhoodDeon Thomas, the former University of Illinois basketball star who had retired in South Florida and who started a new career coaching junior varsity at The University School in Fort Lauderdale, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    The Sentinel And The Damage Done

    Names are starting to stream in from the lastest layoffs at the Sun-Sentinel. As always, I'm going to compile them as they come in. This has caused a small bit of controversy in the past, but it's done in the name of honoring those who are leaving and informing the public of exactly what it's losing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    UPDATED: Bloody Greed: District Drops Community Blood Centers

    The South Broward Drainage District voted yesterday to drop its blood drive and look for a new blood company. Why? Because board members were fed up with the outrageous salaries being paid to top officer at the "non-profit," monopolistic, and heavily political Community Blood Centers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Salary Freeze At Tribune Co., Sun-Sentinel

    The Tribune Co., whose 10 newspapers include the Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Los Angeles Times, yesterday announced a salary freeze for 2009. It affects all non-union employees (for the small percentage of union employees, "the issue will b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2009

    Best Of Readers' Poll 2009: Best Journalist

    History has proven it time and again: The pen is mightier than the sword, the gun, the mayor's dais, and even Satan himself. In a year when hundreds of local journalists lost their jobs, those who survived the newsroom slaughter found twice as much work on their plates. Now's the chance to give it u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A.? My Excuses For Being Late

    Not too long ago, as impossible as it looks, sounds and seems, I held a day job. It was a mundane era of wearing socks, shaving, and having far fewer groupies. Sometimes, I needed to call this day job of mine and tell them I was not feeling so good. Every time I called in sick, I felt a sense of dou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2009

    Are More Layoffs, Cutbacks Coming To Sun-Sentinel?

    I've been so busy juggling about six hellacious stories that I've been neglecting the roots of this blog -- coverage of the local media. I think another reason is that it's just too damn depressing and it seems like Groundhog Day. More corporate idiocy and more layoffs all the time.  . Re ... More >>

  • News

    January 15, 2009

    The Fourth Estate Sale

    Decimated by corporate overlords, the only hope for our local newspapers may be the auction block.

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Bad News For Ex-Sun Sentinel Employees?

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    November 4 Election Predictions

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Bill Scherer Gearing Up For Electoral Rampage

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    E&P Calls Out Sun-Sentinel

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Latest On PB Post Layoffs

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Work is For the Dogs

    Look, I don't know exactly what this means, but I'm blatantly parroting a Tribune-related post from LA Observed that ran on the other side of the continent. LA-O found this passage in Tribune's bankruptcy filings: How are severance payments affected? All ongoing severance paym ... More >>

  • News

    November 15, 2007

    Wish I Was in Dixie

    Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007

    Sentinel Down With Its Peeps

    Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony

  • Calendar

    April 20, 2006

    Satanic Silver

    Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony

  • Arts and Entertainment

    May 12, 2005

    Best Director

    Michael Hall for The Loman Family Picnic at Caldwell Theatre Company

  • Sports and Recreation

    May 12, 2005

    Best Thing About the Panthers Lockout

    Triage

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    Late-night Confession

    What exactly did the mayor say to the commissioner at City Hall?

  • Best of BPB

    May 16, 2002

    Best Local Website

    Broward County Property Appraiser's Office

  • News

    August 17, 2000

    Welcome to KKKMart

    A new lawsuit alleges that Boca Raton's Stein Mart was in fact a hotbed of racism

  • News

    August 26, 1999

    All Work and No Pay

    For two years single mothers have tried hard to switch from welfare to workfare. But the WAGES program keeps getting in the way.

  • Foodstuffs

    March 11, 1999

    Best Restaurant When Someone Else is Paying

    Toni Bishop's Restaurant & Jazz Club

  • News

    September 10, 1998

    The Huizenga Hair Club For Litigants

    Fired from a posh Boca beach club for her buzz cut, champion lifeguard Christine Leduc-McCrady is suing the owner, Huizenga Holdings

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    Undercurrents

    Fired from a posh Boca beach club for her buzz cut, champion lifeguard Christine Leduc-McCrady is suing the owner, Huizenga Holdings

  • News

    May 21, 1998

    A Million-Dollar Blunder

    That would be Fort Lauderdale's decision to tear down Frank Ptito's house -- and guess who's paying?

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