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Public school teachers in Miami-Dade voted overwhelmingly to keep their collective bargaining group, rejecting a competing organization backed by a company that supported Florida’s relatively new anti-union law.
United Teachers of Dade, which has represented Miami-Dade educators since 1974, won recertification with 83% of the vote. It defeated another group, the Miami-Dade Education Coalition, which got financial help from the union-busting Freedom Foundation.
The Freedom Foundation claimed credit for authoring a since-updated 2023 bill, which among other things mandates that if a union doesn’t have at least 60% membership in a given district, it has to reapply yearly for recertification.
– Jesse Scheckner, Florida Politics