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		<title>Union-decertification bill clears Florida House on a 75-41 vote</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The House approved legislation Thursday that would require the decertification of any public employee union unless at least 50 percent of the eligible workers in a unit pay dues. HB 11 passed on a vote of 75-41, with many Democrats calling it union busting. “It amazes me that we constantly come up with bills that are disguised, but that actually weaken the unions,” Broward Democrat Richard Stark said. “In this day and age, we forget how important unions were in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Less than 7 percent of Florida&#8217;s workforce is in a union</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A little less than 7 percent of Florida&#8217;s workforce is in a labor union. That&#8217;s about 546,000 wage-earners who were union members in the Sunshine State last year. The numbers were released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bureau also says that almost 8.5 percent of Florida&#8217;s workforce was covered by unions. That figure includes both union members and nonmembers whose jobs are covered by a union contract. The national rate of union membership was 11.1 percent&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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