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USF students demand no more tuition hikes, they sit in for the 4th Friday in a row listen

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Tags: USF, tuition, budget cuts, education, Indiana University, strike, Judy Genshaft, SDS

Some USF students have been staging sit-ins at the University of South Florida in Tampa for four Fridays in a row. Even though the group today was small, they were still demanding that the USF president start working with them to meet their list of demands.

The group piles into the Patel Center lobby every Friday at lunchtime. They stay until the building is about to close and the last employees are going home. But Students like Matthew Hastings most want to talk to is president Judy Ge...

Pilots strike against AmeriJet listen

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Pilots and flight engineers for Ft. Lauderdale-based Amerijet International are on strike at the Miami International Airport. Late this afternoon, WMNF spoke with Kamal Patel, a captain who is on the picket line.

Truckers strike in Tampa to protest fuel prices listen

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Tags: strike, labor, unions, economy, gas prices

For the second day in a row, independent truckers were on strike in Tampa today protesting high diesel fuel prices and stagnant incomes. About 50 truck owner-operators demonstrated on Causeway Boulevard in front of the Port of Tampa.

David Santiago is a truck owner-operator. Santiago is striking because he wants the companies who hire independent truckers to pay them more.

“We just came together, we sat down and said, hey enough is enough, we can’t make it any more. I’m sure McDonalds ...