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Tampa Bay Times Saturday, September 1, 2018 3B Formore local business news, visit tampabay.com/business. Dow30 Industrials Nasdaq Russell 2000 TorontoStock Exchange 22.10 25,964.82 0.39 2,901.52 21.17 8,109.54 0.00 1,740.75 108.67 16,262.88 Gold Silver Oil perbarrel Dollarvs.Canada Dollarvs. Euro $2.70 $1,200.40 $0.047 $14.430 $0.45 $69.80 0.0062 1.3053 0.0020 0.8594 Heardit here Disney teamsters near finalizing deal TheTeamsterssaid late Friday thata tentativeagree- menthasbeenreached for membersof itsLocal385 whoworkasbusdrivers, laundryworkers, characters, andother jobsatWaltDis- neyWorld inOrlando.The contractwill bevotedon nextweekand, if be ineffectuntilOct.1, 2022. isahistoriccontract for themembersatWaltDisney ClayJeffriessaid inastate- ment. Thecontractcomes aftermore thanayearof negotiations.According to aTeamsters release, the agreementcalls forDisney Worldworkers to receivea inwage increasesover the lifetimeof at the resort receivinga It also includes retroactivepayand Publix recalls beef products Publixhas recalledseveralof itsbeefproductscontaining groundchuckafter traces ofE.coliwere found in the product.Thegrocerychain is urgingcustomers tocheck their freezersas the recall coversgroundchuck items sold fromJune25 through July31, according toanews release.Productspurchased outsideof that rangehave beendeemedsafe.The recall covers24counties, do.Customerscanbring the meatback to thestore fora full to the release.Thechainhasyet todetermine thesupplier.

E. coli isabacteria found in contaminatedwateror food that, if fatal infection. Expo for owning your own business largest is coming to theTampaCon- ventionCenteronFriday. For twodays, theFranchise Showwill give localsa chance tocheckoutgrow- ingbrands.Theexpohas seminarsaboutopening yourownfranchise location inaddition toboothsshow- casing franchiseopportuni- ties. the doorandprogrammingruns from11a.m.

to5p.m.next FridayandSaturday. Rental market rises in South Goodnews forapartment much for renters. The rental market isgrowingstronger in to at leastone report from propertymanagement software.Compared to the restof thecountry, the southern the report said. Annual rentgrowthof2.8 percentayearago isonly marginallyhigher than the 2.5percent increase inmid- 2018.AndFloridaplaysa big role.Floridacitiesmake upsixof the topseven in change inannual rents amongthe top50U.S.mar- kets in theSouth region. Times staff CareerSource centers to split today in wake BY MARK PUENTE AND ZACHARY T.

SAMPSON Times Staff Writers After working together for sev- eral years under one leader, the two largest job place- ment centers will sever ties today. CareerSource Pinellas and CareerSource Tampa Bay in Hillsborough County shared staff and services in accounting, finance and human resources. Some employees also worked in both counties to help people find jobs. Each agencywill operate on its own starting today. The split comes after a Tampa Bay Times investigation raised questions about whether the centers inflated their hiring numbers.

The U.S. Department of Labor and the Florida Depart- ment of Economic Opportunity launched investigations, which are ongoing. board needs to get itself in CareerSource Pinellas board chairman Jack Geller said. now going to be easier to get us on the right track with- out having to worry about Hills- borough. We have enough issues to He said the two offices could have holdover issues to sort through next week but neither would leave the other in the To make the separation hap- pen, 133 employees out of 212 between both agencies received layoff notices this summer from CareerSource Pinellas, the employer of record for both cen- ters.

The letters said Hillsbor- ough workers would lose their jobs Aug. 31. As of Wednesday, Career- Source Tampa Bay had made 92 of 120 planned hires, said Hills- borough County Commissioner Sandy Murman, the vice chair of the Tampa Bay board. It was not clear how many laid-off staffers had been rehired. only a few jobs remaining at this point to be said Sean Butler, chair- man of CareerSource TampaBay.

In Pinellas, interim direc- tor Jennifer Brackney said the jobs center will have 71 employ- ees after it rehired 13 people who received layoff notices this year. The local centers are part of a network of 24 CareerSource agencies across Florida. They are publicly funded nonprofits over- seen by separate boards, which include members from educa- tion, business, government and labor organizations. BY RICHARD DANIELSON Times Staff Writer Not even one penny per year. the increase in hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, for the typical black worker in Flor- ida for the 18 years from 2000 to 2017, a study from Florida Inter- nationalUniversity says.

At the same time, annual ofWorking report says the labor force has gotten more racially and ethni- cally diverse, better-educated, older and more concentrated in jobs that emphasize knowledge over physicalwork. Here are some key numbers for 2000-17 from Center for A changing labor force 10.9 Percentagedeclinein thewhiteshareof labor force. 1 in 3 degreeorhigher, an increaseof about8percent. 18.4 Percentage increaseinproductivity from 2000-16. Workforce more educated, diverse But blackworkers in Florida still lag in wages, employment.

The Pinellas andHillsborough offices nowwill operate on their own. Uneven gains $1.27 for infla- tion, seenby the typicalFlorida worker from2000-17. 17 typicalblackFlorida worker for thesameperiod. 3.3% 2017unemploy-ment rate for whiteworkers. 6.8% 2017unemploy-ment rate for blackworkers.

Potential investments Esti-mated gain to thestate fromincreasing theenrollmentatFloridapublic collegesanduniversitiesby 10percent if thestate, rather than studentsor $172M Estimatedeconomic impactof in solarpower. Estimatedincrease in earnings for3.2millionworkers if Florida raised itsminimumwage BY SARA DINATALE Times Staff Writer This is not your normal Publix, but it looks like it be your normal Green- WiseMarket, either. As the Lakeland-based chain prepares to next month open a new GreenWise stand- alone locationfor the first time in a decade, more details are trickling out about what the next generation of the organic store will look like. And it seems like it will be a lot less like Whole Foods which you could argue the 2008 GreenWise wave was built to com- bat and a lot more like speciality niche stores Market, Earth Fare and Sprouts FarmersMarket. In addition to GreenWise Tallahassee opening, the new organic stores are slated to open in Lakeland and South Carolina in 2019.

In August, Pub- lix announced it would open a new Green- Wise in Boca Raton, which is home to one of three original GreenWise stores; the oth- ers are in Tampa andPalmBeach. newGreenWiseMarket concept fea- tures a simplified environment designed to show off our unique and house-made offer- senior vice president of retail opera- tions KevinMurphy said in a statement. GreenWise is also the private label Pub- lix uses on all the organic items it sells in its standard stores. Tampa GreenWise Market a roughly center at 2401 W. Azeele St.

in South Tampa opened along with the other first-generation loca- tions in 2008. The GreenWise planned at Lake Miriam Drive and West Pipkin Road in Lakeland is about 25,000 square feet, and the other locationswill be about the same. Publix says the stores will play to foodies and health-conscious shoppers. The chain releasedwhen its TallahasseeGreen- Wise will open, but it has been promoting the store heavily on Facebook. The new GreenWise ad campaign fea- tures fresh-cut fruit, artisan coffee, sushi, kale salads, andhip 20-somethings.

One image shows a shopper flipping her hair with the promise of soaps, shampoos, nutritional and nutri- tional GreenWise is calling it the section; similar to apothecary department. has emerged as a serious com- petitor, opening more stores in the Sun- shine State than anywhere else this year. With the Tallahassee GreenWise loca- proximity to Florida State University, not shocking the ad campaign is tar- geted at young shoppers seeking out Insta- gram-worthymeals. The will have bur- rito bowls, sushi and smoked wings. The section will offer local craft beer and kombucha on tap.

And the sectionwill offer cheese andwine tastings. is not your typical grocery store, and sometimes you may not even go there to shop for Publix said about GreenWise in a news release. Those speciality sections exist in the South Tampa GreenWise, which does have hot bars with multiple cuisines, soups, salad and antipasto. That Green- Wise is large and packed with high-end and organic groceries, but it have the trendy, cool vibe that and oth- ers have captured. So that prompts the question: Will Tam- GreenWise get a makeover to be more likeGreenWise 2.0? The chain ready release any more GreenWise news yet, spokesman Brian West said.

may have more to share after we open our first location in he said in an email Friday. Contact SaraDiNatale at Follow New-generation GreenWise Publix to bring amore niche feel to its stand-alone organic stores. JAMES BORCHUCK Times The stand-alone GreenWise in South Tampa is one of three opened in 2008. The first GreenWise 2.0 will be in Tallahassee. GreenWise This is a concept sketch of the new GreenWise posted to its Facebook page..