2023 – Today: Shaping Our Future in Worker Justice Video Source: Miami Workers Center Video Description: Domestic workers in South Florida unite fo... Learn More
2020 – Florida Voters Pass a $15 Minimum Wage with Amendment 2 In the sixteen years between the passage of Amendment 5 in 2004 and Amendment 2 in 2020, the only... Learn More
2013 – The Legislature Sidelines Local Workers from Employment Benefits Ten years after Florida’s ban on local wage policies, the Legislature expanded these restrictions... Learn More
2004 – Voters Pass First Statewide Minimum Wage with Amendment 5 Before 2004, Florida was one of only seven states without its own minimum wage. The state Legisla... Learn More
2003 – Local Governments Blocked from Setting Minimum Wages In 2003, Florida was one of only seven states without its own minimum wage. State legislators rep... Learn More
2002 – Department of Labor is Dismantled Despite having one of the highest minimum wages in the South, Florida still has the highest minim... Learn More
1974 – The “Public Employees Relations Act” Cements Collecti... Although Florida’s 1944 right-to-work law was amended in the 1968 constitution to ban public work... Learn More
1968 – Teacher Walkout Shines Spotlight on Collective Bargaining Throughout the 1960s, American public workers were fed up with their working conditions. Across F... Learn More
1959 – Public Workers are Banned from Striking Workers of all races continued to push back against state leaders’ anti-union policies in the mid... Learn More
1944 – Florida Undermines Unions with Nation’s First “Right to Work” Law In the 1940s, pro-segregationist Southerners started a movement for “preserving the Old South’s r... Learn More
