A new poll from St. Leo University shows growing support for Amendment 2, to raise Florida’s minimum wage. Tampa’s own Disco Dolls Studio recently signed on to join Florida Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, but have believed in the cause for years. Listen: Kristine Ownley pulled the glasses from her face, tucked a fallen… Read more »
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Labor activists will rally to oppose privatization of custodial work in Hillsborough Schools
The Hillsborough County Public School Board is studying the idea of turning over work that’s now done by unionized custodians to a private company instead. But activists who want to stop the privatization before the idea gets too much traction are holding a rally Friday afternoon. Megan Flocken is a Hillsborough County public high school… Read more »
Hillsborough Schools custodians fight privatization
Custodians in Hillsborough County Schools are fighting back against a proposal to privatize cleaning services. They are rallying Tuesday afternoon outside the school board meeting in downtown Tampa and speaking out during the meeting itself. In a separate demonstration Tuesday morning about fifty custodians and their allies rallied in a light rain shower. Organizers say… Read more »
Coalition of Immokalee Workers will stop in Tampa on march “4 Fair Food”
Coalition of Immokalee Workers The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is organizing a cross-country march that includes Florida, for what they’re calling the “4 Fair Food” tour to boycott Wendy’s. As part of that tour, the CIW is coming to Tampa. The Tampa event, called “A Human Rights Revolution: Tampa Welcomes the Immokalee Workers” is on March… Read more »
Climate change is making Florida’s heat dangerous for farmworkers: report
The effects of climate change on Florida are not limited to sea-level rise, more intense hurricanes and disappearing coral reefs; a new report warns that as temperatures continue to surge, outdoor workers — like farmworkers and construction workers — are at increasing risk of severe health effects. The report, called “Unworkable. Dangerous Heat Puts Florida… Read more »
Nurses at 4 Tampa Bay area hospitals authorize strike
Registered Nurses from seven Florida hospitals and from four other states have voted to strike if their contract negotiations continue to flounder. Rosanne O’Malley is the chief nurse union representative at Medical Center of Trinity in Pasco County. Her union is National Nurses United / National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNU/NNOC). “We have had negotiations since… Read more »
Dolores Huerta reacts to judge’s rebuke of Trump’s DACA cancellation
Dolores Huerta won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her life of organizing workers, especially migrant farmworkers. With Cesar Chavez she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Huerta will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg in Fox Hall. WMNF began our interview by asking… Read more »
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ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Subject of New Film The Organizer Talks About Community Organizing
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. ACORN was once the largest political movement of low and moderate income people in the US- but it was destroyed by an attack- from conservative media. We’ll look at the history of ACORN this morning and hear from its founder Wade Rathke who will be in St…. Read more »
SDS plans May Day and USF sanctuary campus rallies; plus, listeners react to airstrikes on Syria
On MidPoint we asked listeners their thoughts about the latest U.S. / allied missile strikes on Syria. We also spoke about some upcoming actions by Students for a Democratic Society – a May Day rally in Ybor City and a sanctuary campus event at USF. SDS rallies: at USF for sanctuary campus and in Ybor… Read more »
Sex worker solidarity group opposes “bathhouse ordinance” in Hillsborough
In the last few months the City of Tampa passed an ordinance trying to cut down on human trafficking by regulating businesses that pose as a massage parlors; but opponents of what’s called the “bathhouse ordinance” are concerned that it hurts victims of sex trafficking. Sydney Eastman, a volunteer with the Sex Worker Solidarity Network,… Read more »
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New Film About Veteran Community Organizer Heather Booth Will Be Shown Tonight in Tampa
Radioactivity 3 22 18 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— We’ll meet veteran community organizer Heather Booth— who took part in the Civil Rights movement, she was an early a feminist leader and is considered to be one of the country’s most effective progressive organizers. She’s the subject of a new… Read more »
Pasco teachers rally to protest Florida education bill
A major education bill unanimously passed the Florida Senate Education Committee Tuesday, after a few changes from the version that passed the state House; about 125 teachers and their supporters from Pasco, Hernando Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties rallied against the bill and for public education Monday in Land O’ Lakes. Don Peace is president of… Read more »
Hillsborough teachers & supporters rally outside school board meeting
Teachers and their supporters rallied at Tuesday afternoon’s meeting of the Hillsborough County School Board. They’ve demonstrated outside the last several meetings. The executive director of HCTA — the Hillsborough teachers’ union — Stephanie Baxter-Jenkins, says they’re no closer to a contract agreement with the school district. Baxter-Jenkins says the local struggle of teachers for fair… Read more »
USF grad student union decries Florida “union busting” bill
Last week the Florida House passed a bill that critics call the “union busting bill;” our guest says it will hurt members in graduate assistants unions like the one she is co-president of at the University of South Florida. The bill would decertify public sector unions that have less than 50 percent dues-paying members. So far… Read more »
