Unions unite in Tallahassee power struggle

[Sancho]

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/gubernatorial/unions-unite-in-tallahassee-power-struggle/1218871

TALLAHASSEE — Thursday's expected Senate vote over giving parents the right to order turn-around programs at their struggling schools is less about parents and more about undercutting the role of Florida's powerful teacher's unions, say labor organizers.

After numerous assaults on them last year, unions have banded together in a united front to persuade legislators — mainly the fragile majority in the Senate — to stop efforts to undercut the unions.
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Unions, which previously had worked independently to pursue their agendas, have locked arms in an election-year strategy to reward their friends and penalize enemies on a handful of union-breaking proposals this year.
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If it wasn't for Unions in Florida, we would be down the toilet. Despite the setbacks, we're fights and winning. Membership is up and growing - Rick Scott and the legislature is on the defensive even while they hold all the cards. I have a union mouse pad in my office that says "organize!" and it shows a school of little fish chasing a big shark around. There is strength in numbers.