Tennessee Conservative
A National Labor Union Representing Over 100,000 Federal Employees Pulled A Document Off Its Website After A Report Showed The Biden Administration Was Using Taxpayer Dollars To Help Public Unions Grow Their Members, And As A Result, Their Budgets.
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One Of The Nation’s Top Labor And Teacher’s Unions Is Debating Whether To Call For The Mandatory Vaccination Of All Children Before Returning To School. The Organization Already Has Agreed To Support And Lead Campaigns To Advance Critical Race Theory.
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There Are 116,387 Unionized Workers In Tennessee, Or 4.3% Of The Total Workforce. Over The Last Decade, The Share Of The Workforce In Organized Labor Unions Declined By 0.3 Percentage Points In The State.
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In all pathways, the vast majority of mines and all coal power plants shutter by 2030, although the coal export business will live on. The ranks of 600,000 natural gas workers fall by more than two-thirds by 2050 in most scenarios. To compensate, the Biden administration pledges that the energy transition will create “millions” of green jobs, but most new jobs will be in the construction of wind and solar farms, which is temporary work and often not in the same regions that provide fossil fuel employment. The pay is significantly lower, too. The median wage for a solar installer is about $45,000 a year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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A Knoxville flight attendant has filed a federal lawsuit against Transport Workers Union of America Local 577, claiming that the union violated her civil and constitutional rights when it forced her to pay union dues after she objected on religious grounds.
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