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What “right-to-work” means, and who’s for and against the amendment.
Nashville’s mayor and the Tennessee Titans are announcing they’ve made a $2.2 billion deal for a new enclosed stadium.
Backers say banning smoking in bars where it’s been allowed will improve health and business. But some patrons say they’ll miss the smoky atmosphere.
Shareholders of Franklin-based Community Health Systems accuse the for-profit hospital chain of downplaying its precarious finances and even hiding its troubles through accounting tricks.
Nashville-based HCA, the nation’s largest private health system, has faced years of scrutiny from a powerful labor union over how it runs its emergency departments. And now Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat from New Jersey, is calling for a federal investigation and asking questions of his own.
Railroad workers look ready to strike by the end of this week when a 60-day negotiation session ends. President Biden delayed a rail strike through executive action back in July, but trains may be forced to grind to a halt if a compromise can’t be reached by the end of the “cooling off” period.
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 have to decide in November whether to write the state’s right-to-work law into the state’s constitution.
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’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.
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