New Florida Legislature session: Florida legislators have a packed agenda for session staring Tuesday - OrlandoSentinel.com
TALLAHASSEE - Annual lawmaking session comes amid double-digit unemployment rates and the busiest election season in modern state political history.
PolitiFact | Create a 'Green Vet Initiative' to promote environmental jobs for veterans - Obama promise No. 466:
Orlando Sentinel – Central Florida Political Pulse
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden plans to visit Central Florida today with stops in Clermont to visit a Recovery Act construction site and then in Orlando to speak at the winter meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council, according to administration officials
Martinez named to board of Progress Energy
Former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, who left Washington late last summer to spend more time with his family in Orlando, has just been named to the board of Progress Energy Inc., the Raleigh, N. Car. energy company that owns the Florida utility of the same name
Offshore Florida oil: Not much there, there
A new report says drilling in Florida waters would “have no discernible impact” on gas prices or the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, but could pump millions into state coffers
Is your lawmaker an ideologue? Check here
The National Journal today released its annual report (available here) that attempts to rank federal lawmakers along the ideological spectrum, based on their 2009 votes.
Talks between Palm Bay, firefighters heat up | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
Negotiations between Palm Bay and its firefighters union go this week before a special magistrate to help both sides reach a contract agreement
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Whirlpool: Mexican Workers Paid $70/Week Can't Buy Refrigerators - Topix
Whirlpool is closing a plant in Evansville, Indiana, and moving the jobs to Mexico, where the workers will be paid $70 per week. Our system is broken when "the market" encourages companies like Whirlpool to close factories, destroy the lives of American workers, devastate the surrounding communities and ultimately destroy the very economy that the Whirlpools depend on
Take Action: Whirlpool: Keep It Made in America
The Whirlpool Corp. plans to start closing its refrigerator plant in Evansville, Ind., on March 26. The refrigerators now manufactured at this plant will be produced in Mexico, eliminating 1,100 local jobs. Meanwhile, Whirlpool--the world's largest home appliance maker--enjoys healthy profits and has received a $19 million economic matching grant that should be creating jobs here in America
Workers Memorial Day
Decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions. But the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths remains enormous
. List of space workers who died in the line of duty | floridatoday.com | FLORIDA TODAY
This list of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station workers who died while performing their jobs was compiled by the Space Walk of Fame Museum and is incomplete. Some of the information is based only on workers' recollections
