Here’s what workers in the US South and the colonies were up to from June 20 to July 4 All information on Florida’s public sector union elections comes from McKenna Schueler’s monthly round up of Florida union news. You can check it out on her website, caringclassrevolt.substack.com, where you can get more information about Florida…
Last Week in Southern Labor
Boss Watch
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Boss Watch: 6/27 – 7/4
Illegal activities of Southern Bosses for the weeks between Friday, June 27, and Friday, July 4 Georgia Discriminators 1st Franklin Financial Corporation, a consumer lender with more than 370 branches throughout the southeastern United States, violated federal law by discriminating against a class of employees when it denied them reasonable accommodations and then fired them…
NEWS
Medicaid Cuts: “The goal is to trip people up and get them off the program.”
The American Prospect Executive Editor David Dayen joins us to talk about the cold harsh reality of how the bill, now signed into law, will hurt working people on Medicaid; “The whole point here is to create a new bureaucracy that people have to comply with, on a regular basis, and make it so that it’s hard to not just sign up for Medicaid, but to maintain your coverage and to stay enrolled.” (READ MORE)