McKenna Schueler
@shecarrieson.bsky.social
Staff Reporter for Orlando Weekly | Words in Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, In These Times, Strikewave, Facing South. Also have a Substack: Caring Class Revolt. Retweet =/= endorsement. Say hi/send tips: [email protected]
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Florida lawmakers ignore attempt to reestablish a state labor department to take on wage theft — again
The AG's Office, the only state enforcement mechanism for Florida's minimum wage, recovered unpaid wages for exactly one person last year.
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Just another afternoon thinking about how Florida doesn’t have a state labor department (because Jeb Bush abolished it) and how the state’s minimum wage is basically left up to an honor system because the state takes little action to enforce it. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
Delivery drivers for MBM Logistics in Orlando, represented by the Teamsters, have secured their first union contract, delivering higher pay, stronger job protections, and fully employer-paid healthcare, per the union. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/drivers...
Delivery drivers for Orlando logistics company score first union contract
Drivers for logistics company MBM Logistics in Orlando, who are organized with the Teamsters Local 385. Dozens of mail and package drivers in Central
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December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Delivery drivers for MBM Logistics in Orlando, represented by the Teamsters, have secured their first union contract, delivering higher pay, stronger job protections, and fully employer-paid healthcare, per the union. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/drivers...
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Advocates urge Disney to investigate alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons
Advocates urge Disney to investigate alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons
Advocates with Central Florida Jobs with Justice and the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee urge Disney to hold balloon manufacturer
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December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Advocates urge Disney to investigate alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons
Advocates for incarcerated workers are urging Disney to investigate the alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...
Advocates urge Disney to investigate alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons
Advocates with Central Florida Jobs with Justice and the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee urge Disney to hold balloon manufacturer
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December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Advocates for incarcerated workers are urging Disney to investigate the alleged use of prison labor to make character balloons www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...
After seeing their nearly 50 year-old union decertified by the state earlier this year, blue-collar workers employed by the city of Titusville (a small city in Central Florida) are now organizing a new union with @ibewinternational.bsky.social Local 606 www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/p...
Titusville public works and utility workers launch effort to build new union
After seeing their former union dissolved by the state earlier this year, city employees in Titusville who work in the utilities and public works departments are organizing to form a new union with th...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
After seeing their nearly 50 year-old union decertified by the state earlier this year, blue-collar workers employed by the city of Titusville (a small city in Central Florida) are now organizing a new union with @ibewinternational.bsky.social Local 606 www.orlandoweekly.com/news/labor/p...
New roundup of unionization drives that launched in Florida’s public and private sectors last month, plus union election results: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...
Last month in Florida: New union organizing and union election results (Nov. 2025)
Catch up on new organizing, feat. Starbucks workers in South Florida, blue-collar public sector workers in Central Florida, and more.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New roundup of unionization drives that launched in Florida’s public and private sectors last month, plus union election results: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...
A consultant for the FL-based union avoidance firm RoadWarrior Productions, one of Amazon’s favorite anti-union consultancies, reported earning an astounding $9,000/day for collecting information on Amazon drivers through one-on-one conversations truthout.org/articles/ama...
Amazon Drivers Take 45 Days to Earn What the Company’s Union Buster Earned in 1
Union-busting consultants thrive on secrecy, but they can’t hide their obscene pay rates for long.
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November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A consultant for the FL-based union avoidance firm RoadWarrior Productions, one of Amazon’s favorite anti-union consultancies, reported earning an astounding $9,000/day for collecting information on Amazon drivers through one-on-one conversations truthout.org/articles/ama...
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Florida Highway Patrol arrests two for ‘aggressively’ chalking ‘Resist’ on Pulse crosswalk
Florida Highway Patrol arrests two for 'aggressively' chalking 'Resist' on Pulse crosswalk
A Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested two people Sunday afternoon for allegedly “defacing” the formerly rainbow-colored crosswalk outside of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub — the latest in a string of q...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Florida Highway Patrol arrests two for ‘aggressively’ chalking ‘Resist’ on Pulse crosswalk
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Tampa photojournalist arrested outside ICE detention center in Miami
Tampa photojournalist arrested outside ICE detention center in Miami
Decker, who was on assignment for three news outlets, was covering a protest action by Sunshine Movement, which saw many of its members arrested.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Tampa photojournalist arrested outside ICE detention center in Miami
I've known and worked alongside Dave since I began my reporting career as a freelancer. He's fearless, exceptionally kind, and covers what others don't. Please read and consider supporting his GoFundMe (linked in the article)
Tampa photojournalist arrested outside ICE detention center in Miami www.cltampa.com/news/tampa-p...
Tampa photojournalist arrested outside ICE detention center in Miami
More than 30 people were arrested outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami last Saturday afternoon—including Tampa photojournalist Dave Decker.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I've known and worked alongside Dave since I began my reporting career as a freelancer. He's fearless, exceptionally kind, and covers what others don't. Please read and consider supporting his GoFundMe (linked in the article)
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Orange County moves forward with effort to revive local film industry
Orange County moves forward with effort to revive local film industry
Florida, once dubbed “Hollywood East” used to have its own statewide film incentive program — drawing in production for films like “Edward Scissorhands” and “My Girl” — but the right-wing, Koch-founde...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Orange County moves forward with effort to revive local film industry
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Allegiant Air pilots at Orlando-Sanford airport join national picket in fight for fair union contract
Allegiant Air pilots at Orlando-Sanford airport join national picket in fight for fair union contract
Pilots for Allegiant Air, represented by the Teamsters, picketed outside 22 airports across the country Tuesday, including the Orlando-Sanford International Airport. The action is part of a coordinate...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Allegiant Air pilots at Orlando-Sanford airport join national picket in fight for fair union contract
Sizable turnout for a picket line organized by Allegiant pilots represented by the Teamsters Local 2118 @ Orlando-Sanford Airport
They’re joining pilots at 21 other airports today for a picket (not a strike) to raise awareness of their fight for a fair union contract @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
They’re joining pilots at 21 other airports today for a picket (not a strike) to raise awareness of their fight for a fair union contract @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sizable turnout for a picket line organized by Allegiant pilots represented by the Teamsters Local 2118 @ Orlando-Sanford Airport
They’re joining pilots at 21 other airports today for a picket (not a strike) to raise awareness of their fight for a fair union contract @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
They’re joining pilots at 21 other airports today for a picket (not a strike) to raise awareness of their fight for a fair union contract @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
Washington's state AG says he's launching a new 'Workers Rights Unit' to combat wage theft (something FL does not have)
“This unit will fight to even the playing field for Washington workers and hold corporations accountable that exploit their workers” www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
“This unit will fight to even the playing field for Washington workers and hold corporations accountable that exploit their workers” www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
AG Nick Brown launches Worker Rights Unit to enforce protections, fight exploitation | Washington State
Read this news release in Spanish. Attorney General Nick Brown today announced the creation of a Worker Rights Unit to lead the effort to uphold Washington state’s nation-leading worker protections an...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Washington's state AG says he's launching a new 'Workers Rights Unit' to combat wage theft (something FL does not have)
“This unit will fight to even the playing field for Washington workers and hold corporations accountable that exploit their workers” www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
“This unit will fight to even the playing field for Washington workers and hold corporations accountable that exploit their workers” www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-re...
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Pundits have said Zohran is a strictly-NYC phenomenon. But a DSA member named Kelsea Bond just got elected to the Atlanta City Council. I talked to her about how she won.
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The DSA Candidate Who Won Down South
An interview with newly elected Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond
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November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pundits have said Zohran is a strictly-NYC phenomenon. But a DSA member named Kelsea Bond just got elected to the Atlanta City Council. I talked to her about how she won.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-dsa-ca...
Lively cover for @cltampabay.bsky.social this week feat. a story I wrote on Central Florida pols’ reactions to the victory of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NYC, including democratic socialist St. Pete city council member @richiejfloyd.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Lively cover for @cltampabay.bsky.social this week feat. a story I wrote on Central Florida pols’ reactions to the victory of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NYC, including democratic socialist St. Pete city council member @richiejfloyd.bsky.social
Orlando Congressman @maxwellfrost.bsky.social slams Senate funding deal offering ‘empty promises’ www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...
Orlando Rep. Maxwell Frost slams Senate funding deal offering ‘empty promises’
The funding agreement could reopen the government if approved by the House and signed into law by President Trump.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Orlando Congressman @maxwellfrost.bsky.social slams Senate funding deal offering ‘empty promises’ www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orlando...
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Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor www.cltampa.com/news/florida...
Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor
While Tampa Bay has just one democratic socialist currently in local elected office, several other electeds and mayoral candidates told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay they nonetheless found validation in ...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor www.cltampa.com/news/florida...
Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor www.cltampa.com/news/florida...
Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor
While Tampa Bay has just one democratic socialist currently in local elected office, several other electeds and mayoral candidates told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay they nonetheless found validation in ...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Florida politicians react to New Yorkers picking democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani to be their mayor www.cltampa.com/news/florida...
While the NLRB isn’t conducting union elections in the private sector right now, with the government shut down, Florida did see new organizing in the public sector this past month: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...
Last month in Florida: New union organizing and union election results (Oct. 2025)
Catch up on new organizing, feat. blue-collar staff in Volusia County schools, cop unions, and a couple dozen recertifications necessitated under Florida's ‘union busting’ law.
caringclassrevolt.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
While the NLRB isn’t conducting union elections in the private sector right now, with the government shut down, Florida did see new organizing in the public sector this past month: caringclassrevolt.substack.com/p/last-month...
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My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard.
Bring a shovel.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Bring a shovel.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine
This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard.
Bring a shovel.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Bring a shovel.
proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...
Leveraging a small portion of pandemic relief funds distributed under the Biden administration, Orange County announced this week that they’ve managed to wipe out more than a half billion dollars ($515M) in medical debt for 302,000+ residents www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-...
Orange County wipes out more than a half billion dollars in medical debt
The debt relief initiative, made possible through funds from the Biden administration, has relieved medical debt for 302,000 people.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Leveraging a small portion of pandemic relief funds distributed under the Biden administration, Orange County announced this week that they’ve managed to wipe out more than a half billion dollars ($515M) in medical debt for 302,000+ residents www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-...
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‘Just practicing for a just contract’: Starbucks workers in Central Florida prepare for potential strike
‘Just practicing for a just contract’: Starbucks workers in Central Florida prepare for potential strike
While some progress has been made in contract talks, the union is threatening a potential strike if they don't reach a deal workers approve.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
‘Just practicing for a just contract’: Starbucks workers in Central Florida prepare for potential strike
Starbucks workers in Oviedo, FL—a suburb about a half hour from Orlando—are ‘just practicing for a just contract’ as part of a national pressure campaign for a strong union contract with @sbworkersunited.org
story incoming for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
story incoming for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Starbucks workers in Oviedo, FL—a suburb about a half hour from Orlando—are ‘just practicing for a just contract’ as part of a national pressure campaign for a strong union contract with @sbworkersunited.org
story incoming for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
story incoming for @orlandoweekly.bsky.social
Florida Democrats and U.S. House Rep. Maxwell Frost
are calling on the state to take action to fund SNAP benefits for the 2.8 million working-class Floridians who rely on them, should the federal gov shutdown stretch into Nov. and delay access www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
are calling on the state to take action to fund SNAP benefits for the 2.8 million working-class Floridians who rely on them, should the federal gov shutdown stretch into Nov. and delay access www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
Florida Dems urge state to take action as millions face delayed SNAP benefits due to gov't shutdown
Millions of low-income Floridians who receive food stamp benefits through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), including veterans and the elderly, could see their benefits for...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Florida Democrats and U.S. House Rep. Maxwell Frost
are calling on the state to take action to fund SNAP benefits for the 2.8 million working-class Floridians who rely on them, should the federal gov shutdown stretch into Nov. and delay access www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
are calling on the state to take action to fund SNAP benefits for the 2.8 million working-class Floridians who rely on them, should the federal gov shutdown stretch into Nov. and delay access www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
Dollar store workers fight to improve jobs even without a union via @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/dollar-store...
Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union
With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Dollar store workers fight to improve jobs even without a union via @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/dollar-store...