Tag: Terry Haynes
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Hidden audit shows big budget hole at union for Miami Dade schools lowest-paid workers
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org An embattled union representing the lowest-paid Miami-Dade public schools employees is facing new problems that include a $210,000 budget deficit, possibly driven by compensation paid to a handful of top union officials.
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Miami-Dade Schools, union push costly private loan program for lowest paid workers
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org A union representing the lowest-paid Miami-Dade public schools employees has endorsed a proposed private loan program for its members that would charge 24 percent interest with the school district collecting loan repayments by deducting them from employee paychecks.
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Union ousts top officer for talking to reporter about union president’s big pay hike
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org A top union official has been suspended by his union for speaking out to a Florida Bulldog reporter and raising questions about the Miami-Dade school administration giving a huge pay hike to the union’s president two months before the School Board began approval of two contracts that outsourced lawn maintenance usually…
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Miami-Dade schools gave union boss fat pay hike before outsourcing work
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org The Miami-Dade public schools administration gave a 60 percent pay hike to the president of the union that represents the district’s lowest-paid employees months before the school board approved one of two contracts that outsourced lawn maintenance work traditionally performed by union workers.
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Miami-Dade union leaders fear more outsourcing of members’ work at district schools
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org The Miami-Dade School Board has agreed to spend up to $1.8 million to outsource lawn service maintenance long done by unionized workers, and union leaders now say they fear Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is eyeing more privatization that could lead to additional work cuts for its members.