Three Brothers Coffee was closed Tuesday because its employees’ union, Coffee Workers of the South, was on strike. They’re demanding better wages and support from management due to staffing issues amidst exits from leadership positions.
After Three Brothers Coffee unionized last year, employees are striking again. This time, it’s over starting pay and staffing shortages.
Middle Tennessee’s largest forest is part of Nashville. Citizens want protection.
Before Nashville finalizes its annual budget this month, citizens are demanding one new line item: funding for Middle Tennessee’s largest contiguous forest, which is in the Highland Rim.
Nashville sues to stop state takeover of the airport authority, citing home rule
Metro Nashville is suing Gov. Bill Lee and Republican leaders of the General Assembly over a new law reforming the Airport Authority board. The suit contends that the law violates the state constitution’s home rule and equal protection clause.
Vanderbilt and Metro Schools are teaming up to study inequities in college-level course offerings — and how to address them
A partnership between MNPS and Vanderbilt University will study disparities in access to career and college-level courses and research how to close the gaps.
Behind These Castle Walls: Six One Trïbe founders take us on a tour of their world
Take a video tour of Six One Trïbe headquarters, East Manor, guided by Gee Slab and Aaron Dethrage.
Two widows successfully lobbied lawmakers to change Tennessee’s workers compensation law in favor of laborers
While there are several new laws every year, Tennessee lawmakers hadn’t touched workers’ comp since an overhaul a decade ago that heavily benefited businesses. But a new law is significant because it’s to the benefit of employees. Two McNairy County women led the charge.
How Tennessee has grown one of the largest student fishing circuits in the nation
“We take everybody. That’s the beauty of it: that it’s open to absolutely everyone … And the fish don’t discriminate. They don’t care who you are. If you’ve got the right bait on, they’re going to come get it and then you get to weigh them in.”
Metro Council introduces a plan to reconstruct Nashville’s Community Oversight Board after state’s effort to abolish it
Five Metro Council members have introduced a plan to reconstruct Nashville’s Community Oversight Board in the wake of a new law to abolish such boards as they currently exist in Tennessee.
Tennessee has 300 leaky, ‘orphaned’ oil and gas wells. A handful are about to be plugged for safety.
Abandoned gas wells — essentially deep holes in Earth’s crust that slowly spit out methane — will soon be capped in one of Tennessee’s federally-protected lands. The U.S. Department of the Interior announced funding Thursday to plug orphaned oil and gas wells in national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands and waters.
Metro employees are getting a cost of living adjustment. Many city workers say it isn’t enough to live on in Nashville.
The mayor’s new proposed budget includes an across-the-board 4% cost of living adjustment for all Metro employees, who have historically been underpaid. However, many city employees say this adjustment would not be enough to keep up with the rising cost of living in Nashville.
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