The Working Families Lobby

 

Corps’ 2012 Session Update

 

Week 2

 

 

 

 

A Message from

 

Working Families

 

Lobby Corps Activists

Click here to watch a very important

 

message from rank and file union

 

members who traveled to Tallahassee

 

to make their Representatives hear

 

their voices and concerns . This video

 

is a sampling of their reactions and

 

experiences after spending a week in

 

Tallahassee. The Working Families

 

Lobby Corps is a legislative program

 

that gives activists a front row seat to

 

the 2012 Legislative Session.

 

 

 

 

 

 The Working Families Lobby

 

Corps’ 2012 Session Update

 

Week 1

 

 

 

 

Click here to watch the first

 

installment of the Working Families

 

Lobby Corps' 2012 Session Update.

 

This weekly video will showcase the

 

work by the affiliates of the Florida

 

AFL-CIO as they fight for working

 

families against corporate and

 

legislative tyranny. This video details

 

Rick Scott's State of the State address,

 

the Tallahassee Awake the State Rally,

 

and the House Community & Military

 

 Affairs Subcommittee meeting where

 

HB 609, which would ban local Wage

 

Theft ordinances, was debated.

 

 

 

Become Part of the Working Families Lobby Corps!

 

 

 

 

 Click here to watch Mike Williams, President of the Florida AFL-CIO as he is joined by members of the Working Families Lobby Corps at the Capitol in preparation for the upcoming Legislative Session that starts on January 10th. The Working Families Lobby Corps is a grassroots legislative program that gives activists the opportunity to be at their state Capitol and fight for the rights of the middle class and the American dream.

Are you ready to defend the rights of working families of Florida this Legislative Session? Are you outraged about a Legislative agenda that cares more about elites and corporate welfare than jobs or turning our economy around? Are you ready to be a freedom fighter for the middle class? If you answered yes to these questions then join us! Be a part of the Working Families Lobby Corps in Tallahassee starting January 10th!

For more information on how to be a part of the Working Families Lobby Corp call your local CLC or contact Phyllis Garrett at pgarrett@flaflcio.org.

 

 

 

An Important Note from the

 

 Florida AFL-CIO for Union

 

Members Regarding the New

 

Unemployment Insurance Law

 

 

 The recent changes to Florida’s Unemployment

 

Insurance System include a provision that requires the

 

bulk of your filing and reporting activities to be conducted

 

using a computer through the Agency for Workforce

 

Innovation’s online portal.  

 

 The Internet forms include a page requiring claimants to

 

detail the newly required five (5) job searches for the

 

week.  UNION MEMBERS WITH HIRING HALLS

 

AND/OR JOB REFERRAL SERVICES ARE STILL

 

PERMITTED TO USE THAT CONTACT TO FULFILL

 

THEIR JOB SEARCH REQUIREMENTS.  In order to

 

comply with the new law, union members should use

 

their union(s) appropriate contact information in each of

 

the five (5) spaces for job search contacts.  Each of the

 

five (5) contacts must be on a different date but the

 

contact’s information can be the same.  This

 

information has been verified by the Agency for

 

Workforce Innovation.  

 

 There will no doubt be additional areas of confusion and

 

concern as the sweeping new law is implemented and

 

we will do our best to provide all union members with the

 

appropriate answers.

 

 

Florida See-Saw Tipping In Mitt Romney's Direction (The Note) - ABC News (blog)

In Florida, GOP candidates praise Marco Rubio, a favorite for running mate - Washington Post (blog)

Santorum: Gingrich moon plan "crass politics" - CBS News

Politics Counts: The Counties That Matter in Florida's Primary - Wall Street Journal (blog)

Clinton: Done with the 'high wire' of politics. Really. - Washington Post (blog)

Florida GOP debate : Worth “Getting upset about?” - The Daily Campus (blog)

Candidates unloved in FL town hit by foreclosures - Boston.com

Super PACs reshaping 2012 presidential campaign - Tampabay.com

'Soccer mamis' could sway Florida - CNN

Politics and Billionaire CEOs Don't Often Mix - NBC Bay Area (blog)