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Miami Janitors Fight Antiunion Drive...Miami-Dade public school janitors and maintenance workers, members of AFSCME, forced the school board to postpone and then pull a decision to privatize operations and lay off as many as 300 workers.

ON THE VERIZON—Members of Electrical Workers Local 824 in Tampa, Fla., voted on a new contract with Verizon Communications Inc. that would provide a 12 percent pay increase over three years. The two sides reached agreement on the proposed package, covering 5,300 technicians and customer service workers in six central Florida counties, two months before the expiration of the current contract. The contract also calls for employer neutrality during Local 824's organizing of workers at any Verizon Florida company.

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