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In the News: Register's Attacks on Unions Put Jobs & Quality @ Risk

Pierce Greenberg at the Nashville City Paper does an in-depth story that examines Jesse Register's attack on workers in Metro Nashville Public Schools. Read how workers like James Brown III, along with parents and students, are going to suffer under Register's union-busting tactics. Read the story here.

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Faculty & Students Demonstrate to Protect Jobs at NADC

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Hundreds of faculty & students stand against layoffs at NADC.

December 21, 2011

Hundreds of faculty, students, and East Nashville residents rallied in front of the Nashville Auto Diesel College on Gallatin Road to bring attention to unfair layoffs and working conditions during the holiday season.

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T.E.A.M. Summits Bring In New & Veteran SEIU Activists

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Attendees at the second T.E.A.M. Summit in Nashville on Nov. 29.

The goal of the T.E.A.M. Summit events are to bring SEIU members together and help prepare them to Transform, Educate, Agitate, and Mobilize their co-workers and the community so that we can win the fights with our employers and the enemies of the middle class.

The Summits have met with great reviews in Nashville and we plan to bring them to the rest of the state in 2012. Stay tuned to www.seiu205.org for more details!

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SEIU Supports "America Recycles Day"

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November 15, 2011

SEIU was proud to be part of a coalition that celebrated “America Recycles Day” by calling on corporate America to help create American jobs by “going green”.

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The 99% Win Big On Election Day

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Madeline Rogero elected Mayor of Knoxville.

November 09, 2011

The results are in—and working people won big on Election Day. The 99 percent, including working families in Maine, Ohio, Mississippi, Arizona, and Tennessee asserted themselves and proudly proclaimed that they want a country where people come before profits, every American has a good job that can support a family, people who have worked hard can retire with dignity and where the next generation can have a better life.

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SEIU Members Welcome the New Metro Council

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Councilmember Karen Johnson (left) speaks with members from Metro Water & NES

October 04, 2011

After the new Metro Council members were sworn in, their first stop was to the SEIU Union Hall where they met with members as Local 205’s “Metro Muscle” campaign kicked off.

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NES Chapter Elects New Officers

SEIU members at Nashville Electric Service voted to elect a new team of officers for their chapter. Those elected were:

Shawn Nevil - President
Jeff Whittaker - 1st Vice-President 
Amy Wheeler - Membership Secretary

The officers' were elected to two-year terms which begin on Nov. 15, 2011.

Congratulations on all those who ran for office.

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New Agreement Ratified by Members at Methodist Medical Center

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Bargaining Committee members count ballots from the contract vote.

SEIU Local 205 members at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge demonstrated their solidarity by voting to ratify the extension of their contract, which was recommended by the union's bargaining committee.  The vote involved approval of the tentative agreement reached with Management on salary and health insurance articles, and left all other discussions off the table.

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Metro Police Civilians Join Local 205!

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We are proud to announce that Local 205 will now be representing the civilian employees working at the Metro Nashville Police Department.

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James Bradley Becomes New Vice-President of Local 205

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At the July 16 meeting of the Local 205 Executive Board, officers and delegates selected James Bradley to serve as the union's Executive Vice-President.

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We're #1!!

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Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge has been ranked #1 in the Knoxville metro area in U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals rankings. Methodist is East Tennessee's only union hospital and has been organized with SEIU since 1966. 

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Grievance Victory at MMC Improves Safety for Nurses & Patients

The Union won a crucial victory that protects R.N.’s, patient safety, and the union contract at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.

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Local 205 Proposes More Investments for Career Employees in Metro Government

On June 16, SEIU Local 205 made a presentation to the Metro Study & Formulating Committee, laying out the Union’s first round of proposals for them to consider which would keep current benefits stable and would lay the groundwork for more investment in career employees with Metro Government.

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Editorial: Local 205 Weighs in On the Attack on Public Workers

Doug Collier, President of SEIU Local 205, wrote an editorial for The Tennessean about the struggle of public employees in Wisconsin and how many of the same battles are playing out right now in Tennessee. Read what Doug had to say at Tennessean.com.

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Victories @ Work

Your Union helps members get reprimands removed from their records, makes sure that promotions are offered fairly, and even gets workers their jobs back!  To see a few examples of how joining SEIU has made a difference for workers, read about some of our Workplace Victories.