70 frontline workers at a Tennessee school were laid off. Now legislators are rallying for them. insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan,Allana Akhtar) © USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect Demonstrators protest against the layoffs of 70 UTHSC frontline facilities workers in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, March 12, 2021.The University Of Tennessee Health Science Center Layouts USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect
70 frontline workers were abruptly laid off from University of Tennessee Health Science Center in March.
Now, local lawmakers are calling for their roles and pay to be reinstated.
Insider spoke to two laid off workers about their experiences, and what the layoffs meant for them.
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Long before television, radio and movie theatres, there were the travelling shows, circuses and vaudeville, singers and poets, authors and orators. All travelled from city to city and town to town, providing entertainment for residents hungry for diversions from day-to-day life. Perth County welcomed its share of such entertainers.
The earliest of shows were considered lewd and for a male audience. According to the PBS website, these “shows presented a variety of entertainment: dancing girls, comics, singers and musicians.” One such show passed through Stratford in July 1856. MacFarland’s Circus was covered in the Stratford Daily Beacon and the review was anything but complimentary.