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Tennessee AFL-CIO Labor Council

Contact Information
Address:

1901 Lindell Ave.
Nashville, TN 37203
United States

 Phone: (615) 269-7111 Email: [email protected]
Accomplishment
We formed new, and strengthened existing, bipartisan relationships within the state legislature over the past several years and helped stop several pieces of anti-worker legislation that would have been extremely harmful to our members.
Principal Officer
Billy Dycus
President

What We’re Doing In
Tennessee

Thirty-three Letters and a Tragedy of Historic Proportions
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By Our Hands: Here’s How Bonnie Blair Became the Typist of the Black Sanitation Workers on Strike in Memphis When Dr. King Was Killed

“I typed all day long for T.O. Jones,” said Bonnie Blair, recalling the rainy day in 1968 when she wrote 33 letters from striking sanitation workers to Mayor Henry Loeb of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Chris Christie Attacks Teachers. Again: Winners and Losers of the Week

Each week, we take a look at the biggest friends and foes of labor. We celebrate the workers winning big and small battles, and we shame the companies or people...
Executive Council Statement

Volkswagen

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Auto Workers to Form Chattanooga Local

UAW members didn't give up after a vote to unionize at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., barely missed passage in February. They continued to move forward, and the union announced...
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NLRB Charges Kellogg with Unlawful Conduct in Memphis Lockout

The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint Thursday against the Kellogg Co., charging the cereal maker with violating federal labor law in its more than five-month lockout of 22...