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Union membership holds steady in the South

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Andrew Holmbeck

By Chris KrommFebruary 2, 2018 Despite losing two high-profile organizing campaigns in 2017 — at Boeing’s factory in South Carolina and a Nissan plant in Mississippi — labor unions gained 130,000 members from the Southern workforce last year. Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in January shows that the share of workers belonging […]

Senate passes bill nullifying Nashville local-hire rule

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Andrew Holmbeck

From the Tennessean- The Tennessee state Senate on Monday voted in favor of a measure to nullify a local-hire initiative previously approved by Nashville voters. With a 27-5 vote, the chamber advanced an effort to nullify a controversial local-hire rule, which would require that at least 40 percent of work hours on city construction projects […]