Big win for labor in Florida

In an update on a janitor's strike that has been going on for two months at the University of Miami, where former Clinton Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala and now president of the university was blocking worker's efforts to organize, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) reports that the university and their contractor, UNICCO, have agreed to let employees decide if they want to unionize.

The win is even more significant given the fact that Florida is a "right to work" state, meaning employees can opt out of unions (and paying dues yet still receive the same benefits members receive under the union contract), thus making it harder for organizers to present a unified labor front in negotiations with management.