Strike

This week on The Florida Roundup, we discuss recovery efforts a week after Hurricane Helene's landfall, all the ways to vote in the upcoming Nov. 5 election, a claims check about social media and Helene, and a few other stories from across the state including a look at how the state's ports are moving forward following a longshoreman strike earlier this week, and peanut farmers.

It comes a day after the governor said nationwide dockworker strikes could slow the flow of supplies needed for Hurricane Helene recovery.

An undisclosed number of the original hunger strikers at USF remain after some of them were hospitalized last week. New members also joined last week.

Students taking part in a hunger strike gathered in the Marshall Student Center lobby in Tampa ahead of the USF Board of Trustees meeting Monday.

More than two dozen USF students gathered outside the Tampa campus library. They plan to hold a hunger strike unless school leaders meet their demands.

Ride Sharing drivers went on strike at the Orlando International Airport to voice concerns over pay and benefits from companies like Uber and Lyft.

Uber, Lyft, and even DoorDash drivers will be hitting the brakes at Tampa International Airport as a part of a nationwide strike. The Valentine’s Day walkout is being organized in more than 10 cities by the Justice for App Workers coalition.

Starbucks workers at more than 100 stores across the country are demanding the coffee company “respect their right to a union” to obtain better wages and working conditions.

The United Auto Worker strike is hundreds of miles from the epicenter of the union strikes happening in places like Michigan and Ohio.

UAW President Shawn Fain called on workers at 38 GM and Stellantis parts distribution centers in 20 states to join the nationwide strike against the companies.

On Friday, the United Auto Workers and its nearly 50,000 GM employees signaled an end to the six-week stalemate, voting to OK a deal that the labor union struck with the automaker earlier this month.