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Jacksonville Republican Files Bill Targeting Public Sector Unions, With Exceptions

March 5, 2023 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Sheriff Rick Staly will tell Flagler County commissioners this evening that his agency is losing deputies to neighboring agencies because the pay is not competitive enough. Staly is seeking to have a deputy's starting pay equal that of firefighters, at around $51,000 a year. (© FlaglerLive)
Firefighters and cops would be exempt from effects of a bill targeting other public sector employees. (© FlaglerLive)

With a Senate committee ready to take up the issue next week, a House Republican on Friday filed a proposal that would make a series of changes targeting public employee unions.

Rep. Dean Black, R-Jacksonville, filed a 17-page bill (HB 1445) that includes changes such as preventing public-employee union members from having dues deducted from their paychecks. Members would have to separately pay dues.




The Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee on Tuesday is scheduled to take up the Senate version of the bill (SB 256), filed by Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill.

The bills would exempt unions representing law-enforcement officers and firefighters from the changes.

Ingoglia pointed to Florida being a right to work state and said employees do not have to join unions. “It (the legislation) gives them some options that if they join the union, they can remove themselves from the union at a moment’s notice,” Ingoglia told The News Service of Florida. “Transparency is key with this piece of legislation.”

But similar proposals in the past have drawn fierce opposition from unions and Democrats. Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association teachers union, issued a statement Wednesday describing Ingoglia’s bill as “an attack, pure and simple, on educators’ basic freedoms and rights.”

–News Service of Florida

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  1. Joseph Barand says

    March 6, 2023 at 6:09 am

    Excluding LEO’s and Firemen is just wrong, why do they deserve special consideration?The Unions representing them are so strong that Republicans are afraid of them. Both of these groups have received higher salaries, retirements benefits, health benefits multiple time of what others have received.20 year retirements have broken the system, why don’t we give each and every Firemen a truck to take home with them so they are treated the same as Cops. Wake up these two Unions have ruined the State of Florida.

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