SEIU Protestors
That will be the view outside the Broward County Courthouse this afternoon. Close to 100 members and sympathizers of the Service Employees International Union plan to protest the county's negotiations with janitorial services provider TCB Systems, Inc. of Miami. TCB Systems is on the shortlist of bidders seeking to clean various buildings in Broward County. The company also maintains the campuses of Nova Southeastern University, where SEIU members were fired in
It would be one thing if a South Florida paper was heralding U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the frontrunner in the U.S. Senate's Democratic primary for 2010. It's a far more auspicious thing that a Tampa Bay paper is making that claim, albeit with some hesitation. Along with Orlando, Jacksonville and the Florida panhandle, Tampa Bay is a region that may not be familiar with a congressman whose district is in South Florida. There's no better way to introduce himself than as the frontrunner.The Miami
A labor judge ruled this week that Nova Southeastern University went to unlawful extremes to quash an effort by the school's custodial contractors to unionize. Among the findings by Administrative Law Judge John H. West: that supervisors intimidated employees of a custodial services firm after they circulated union literature without the university's permission.Starting in August 2006 employees of Unicco, the contractor which for 12 years handled custodial work for Nova, were warned by Nova staf
