In a gut punch to workers across Florida, the Republican-controlled Florida House gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill that’s designed to undercut most of the state’s public sector unions, allowing Florida’s public employees to become collateral damage in a corporate-backed war against public sector bargaining that’s over a decade old. CS/CS/SB 256, which imposes new requirements on public employee unions, could affect over 150,000 working Floridians who are represented by unions, including public educators, school counselors, municipal workers, public healthcare workers and a whole host of other frontline workers lauded as “heroes” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unions representing cops, firefighters, corrections and probation officers would be exempted from most of its provisions, having been categorized by the Republican bill sponsors as belonging to a “special risk category.”