Looks like for the first time since the county budget process began months ago with threats of a 10% pay cut and reduced library hours and the threatened layoff of somewhere around 700 employees, from police officers to park workers, we are quite possibly looking at a really best case scenario where there won’t be […]
Even if Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez comes to terms with all ten of the workers’ unions by giving them back some of the sacrifices they made five years ago — like holiday pay and furloughs — there are some employees who are left out of such negotiated agreements. Across the county, 2,000 to […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez got another labor victory Thursday when the largest group of county workers, members of the AFSCME Local 199, voted overwhelmingly — with 97 percent approval — to ratify a new agreement with his administration. Gimenez was proud of the achievement — the third agreement with labor unions signed so […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez took the stand last week in the public corruption case against former Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman, who is accused of using his elected position and office to benefit Community Health of South Florida, which had hired him as a consultant (read: lobbyist) to help get a clinic approved. Gimenez […]
Have all the budget town hall meetings been like the one Thursday at West Dade Regional Library? The room was packed, that’s for sure. But if you removed all the county employees, including the seven cops in uniform and the multiple people from the mayor’s staff, the library supporters and three members of the media, […]
AFSCME Local 199 became the fourth union to settle with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez when the administration and the union’s negotiating team reached an agreement Thursday. “We’re done. We’re finished,” said Andy Madtes, president of the union that represents the largest number of employees at about 9,000. “We got all of our […]
UPDATED: Three of Miami-Dade County’s 10 employee labor unions have reached tentative agreements with a suddenly friendlier administration that they now have to take before their members for approval. Three more meetings are scheduled for today and it certainly looks like Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez is more eager these days to strike deals. […]
Is Ladra the only suspicious and jaded soul who thinks that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez scheduled a budget town hall meeting on Election Night on purpose? You know? So nobody would show up? The fourth stop on the mayor’s “Best Case/Worst Case Scenario” budget tour begins at 6 p.m. tonight at the Palmetto […]
Alex Ferro, the new chief of staff to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Good to Go” Gimenez, got an 88 percent increase in his salary when he took over last week for former Chief of Staff Lisa Martinez. Son of Ambassador Simon Ferro, a lobbyist and land use attorney, and cousin to former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, […]
A planned recall of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Good to Go” Gimenez is not yet underway, but these very rustic signs are popping up already urging folks to “Layoff Mayor Gimenez.” It is one political sign that stands out from the rest in this election week, perhaps because of its minimalist style and rustic appearance. Capt. […]