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State of the Union: The State of Labor in Tennessee


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Vonda McDaniel Vonda McDaniel has seen a lot of changes in her nearly 30 years of labor organizing. McDaniel first joined a union in 1992, at the Firestone-Bridgestone tire factory in La Vergne where she worked. In a matter of months, she was elected as the shop steward, and that kicked off a lifetime of workers’ rights advocacy.
In 2013, McDaniel was elected president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, an affiliation of more than 40 unions and community organizations, and she holds the position to this day. She says her job at the tire factory paid well and that it “helped me pay off my student loans in record time, and helped to get a good start.” But she doesn’t see that same kind of opportunity today — people can expect to work longer with less guarantee of a retirement and benefits. ....

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State of the Union: The State of Labor in Tennessee

State of the Union: The State of Labor in Tennessee
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Nashville councilmembers announce bill to raise construction standards

Metro councilmembers announced a bill Tuesday that would raise standards and increase oversight for Metro construction projects. ....

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Can a teen's on-site death change Nashville's construction standards? Some councilmembers hope so


Can a teen s on-site death change Nashville s construction standards? Some councilmembers hope so
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Jennifer Enamorado talks about her brother, Gustavo Enrique Ramirez, who died at 16 after falling 11 stories while working at a Nashville construction site. Enamorado helped introduce the Get It Right bill to raise construction standards at Metro projects in Nashville s Public Square on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
Metro councilmembers and workers advocates announced a new bill to raise standards and oversight for Metro construction projects on Tuesday, the day that would have been Gustavo Enrique Ramirez s 17th birthday.
His sister Jennifer Enamorado joined councilmembers and community advocates supporting the Get It Right bill in Nashville s Public Square Tuesday. Ramirez was not the first construction death in Nashville in 2020, she said. He was not the last. ....

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