Florida is challenging a threat by the Biden administration to withhold millions of dollars of federal funds in retaliation for a new state law that regulates unions. Republican Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said Wednesday the state filed a lawsuit against the Biden...
Florida is challenging a threat by the Biden administration to withhold millions of dollars of federal funds in retaliation for a new state law that regulates unions.
“Florida passed laws to protect workers from being strong-armed by unions,” Moody said in a news release. “[President Joe] Biden, intent on driving our country into the ground, continues to try to force states to implement his bad policies. The Biden administration has taken issue with a Florida law, passed in March and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, that made changes to collective bargaining in the state. The law allows union members to revoke their membership at any time and prohibits public employers from deducting union fees from employee paychecks.
“To be clear, Florida has no intention of abolishing the collective bargaining rights of transportation workers,” the lawsuit states. “The Biden Administration reads the phrase ‘continuation of collective bargaining rights’ in [Section 13 of the act] to mean that Florida cannot enact reasonable regulations governing the collective bargaining process, such as those the Legislature enacted earlier this year in Senate Bill 256.
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