Two proposals designed to prevent political favoritism in redistricting, a practice known as gerrymandering, can go on the 2010 ballot if sponsors collect enough signatures, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. ...more

January 30, 2009

Union bosses in this region of rural Mississippi long have grumbled that the largest factories here hire illegal immigrants, and the immigrants have been starting to get more overtime and supervisory positions. ...more

August 28, 2008

When Florida's delegates gather for breakfast this morning to organize for tonight's opening of the Democratic National Convention, they can thank Walt Disney World, Universal Studios and CSX Corp. ...more

August 25, 2008

We take it for granted that a vote means a secret ballot but it was not always that way. Moreover, it will not remain that way for workers who vote on whether or not they want a labor union, if legislation sponsored by Congressional Democrats and endorsed by Senator Barack Obama becomes law. ...more

August 20, 2008

Verizon Communications, the second-biggest U.S. telephone company, extended a deadline for contract negotiations with two unions, averting a strike for now. ...more

August 4, 2008

The Rev. James E. Orange, a lieutenant of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died. He was 65. ...more

February 18, 2008

The fight over a constitutional amendment promising property tax relief came to Tampa on Wednesday, with Gov. Charlie Crist outside of a South Tampa home urging voters to back the measure while a major union was downtown lobbying against it. ...more

January 17, 2008

Despite the candidates' pleas for endorsements, some of the most powerful labor unions are sitting on the sidelines until the presidential primaries begin to thin out the Democratic field. ...more

October 22, 2007

A contractor in Mississippi has withdrawn a government application to allow up to 400 foreign workers to enter the United States to take welding jobs at Tampa's largest shipyard, an official with Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation said Wednesday. ...more

October 18, 2007

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the government could not use mismatched Social Security data to ferret out illegal immigrants from the workplace. ...more

October 11, 2007