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In a guest column, the president of the South Florida AFL-CIO writes that Martin Luther King Jr.'s stance on labor rights should be a model for today, especially the Florida Legislature's attempts to limit those rights.
By DJ 33 1/3 Apr 5, 2021 Miami-Dade County plans to lift the suspension of passenger fares on June 1 for Miami-Dade’s transit. Miami-Dade has installed plastic barriers where bus operators sit, equipped vehicles with air-sanitizing equipment, and mask and cleaning supplies are plentiful, so the county is reactivating pay stations at the front of the vehicles. Masks are still required on all Miami-Dade transit vehicles, and capacity restrictions remain, as Miami-Dade continues to block off seats in buses to reduce crowding. “It was different when we didn’t have mask mandates, and we di...
"What's happened is that every pay period the can keeps getting kicked down the road. They keep saying, 'Next pay period, next pay period,'" says Jeffery Mitchell, TWU Local 291 president. Mitchell says veteran bus drivers and rail operators have been promised every two weeks since October 18 that they'd receive the back pay, but some still haven't seen any of it. Each pay period, county administrators have claimed that they were still calculating the pay and that workers would get the money in the next paycheck. When the target was moved for the umpteenth time last week, Mitchell says, he'd ...