To Debbie Berkowitz, who was a top OSHA official in the Obama administration, the flurry of announcements this week helps solidify the Biden administration’s legacy of trying to “stamp out child labor in this very dangerous meat and poultry industry” while putting the new administration on notice.
As Vanderbilt grad students approach a union vote, administrators stress alternatives
As graduate students at Vanderbilt University are nearing the number of signatures they need for a vote to unionize.
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
In a sweeping investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color.
Amendment 1 would put Tennessee’s ‘right-to-work’ law in the constitution. Here’s what that means.
What “right-to-work” means, and who’s for and against the amendment.
Nashville’s construction industry is booming. One job training program is helping locals get a piece of the pie.
Sierra McCants got into the skilled trades during the height of the pandemic. She had been working in the restaurant industry, when many businesses were shutting down. That’s when she enrolled Music City Construction Careers.
Tennessee voters will soon decide the future of right-to-work. The outcome could complicate things for workers in a state already stacked toward employers.
Tennessee voters will have to decide in November whether to write the state’s right-to-work law into the state’s constitution.
Nashville workers question the timing of Chaatable’s closure after owners learned of union efforts
Restaurants created by a local celebrity chef were the subject of protest this weekend, after workers say Chaatable was closed without giving them proper notice. This is among the latest developments in Nashville’s restaurant organizing scene.
Tennessee has tens of thousands of jobs to fill, but hardly anyone wants them
Tennessee’s unemployment rate has remained at 3.3% for the third consecutive month, according to the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The rate was at an all-time low of 3.2% in March and April.
‘We want to work’: Ukrainian refugees are resettling around Nashville but paperwork is preventing them from building independence
More than 70 Ukrainian refugees have made their way to Middle Tennessee since the start of the war earlier this year. But their resettlement process looks different from many others.
As more Tennessee coffee workers seek better wages and working conditions, one Barista Parlor employee says she was fired for trying
Labor disputes have been cropping up across the country — and here in Middle Tennessee. The latest comes from Nashville’s popular coffee chain, Barista Parlor.
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