privatization

Trash Talk In Memphis

by Editorial Staff on June 20, 2011

Trash workers for the city of Memphis plan to turn out Tuesday to protest a city proposal to privatize garbage collection.

Invoking the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike, workers protesting earlier this…

Tagged as: city of memphis, garbage workers, privatization, public employee unions, santitation department, unions

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Jackson to Consider Taking Over Library

by Editorial Staff on December 6, 2010

The public library that serves the 96,000 residents of Jackson and Madison County has asked to be taken over by the city of Jackson, the Jackson Sun reports. If the city were to…

Tagged as: brandon mcwherter, jackson mayor jerry gist, jackson-madison county public library, privatization, public employee retirement payments

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Group: TVA Should No Longer Get to Evade Environmental Laws, Marketplace Competition

by TN Press Release Center on December 15, 2009

Environmental Integrity Project Press Release, Dec. 14, 2009:

As 1st Anniversary of Kingston Coal Ash Spill Nears, EIP Report Exposes TVA’s Pollution, Poor Environmental Track Record, and Reveals How TVA Avoids Compliance with Federal…

Tagged as: accidents, ash spill, coal, energy, environment, Kingston, privatization, tennessee, TVA

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