Citizen Action to Governor Haslam: Delay Workers’ Comp Changes Until You Fix Gross Mismanagement WIthin Department of Labor
April 2, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Consumer Protections, Recent Blog Posts
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is pushing changes to workers’ comp that will take workers’ comp claims out of the impartial court system and put them directly under the Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Introduced in the General Assembly as HB194 & SB200, the changes would create a brand new agency under the Department of Labor and [...]
A Secret Plan to (NOT) Expand Medicaid
March 28, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Healthcare, Recent Blog Posts
In a bizarre and hastily put together speech to the General Assembly yesterday, Governor Haslam announced that he would reject the federal government’s offer to pay for hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans without health care coverage to, you know, get health care coverage. He said that he would instead continue to work on an “alternative [...]
Rally to Protect TN Workers Injured on the Job
March 26, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Consumer Protections, Recent Blog Posts, Workers Rights
This afternoon, Tennesseans rallied at the state capitol (see pictures below) to urge Governor Bill Haslam to stop his push through the legislature for changes that will gut workers’ comp in TN as we know it. The changes will hurt working men and women injured on the job by reducing insurance payouts drastically. And if [...]
The Mysterious Convergence of March 26
March 22, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Recent Blog Posts, Workers Rights
Every once in a while there comes a day when events mysteriously converge. Tuesday, March 26, 2013 is one of those magical days. Won’t you spend it in Nashville at a hearing, an event, and another event lifting up your voice in solidarity with hardworking men and women from all over the state? —————————————————————————— HEARING – Workers’ Comp Bill in [...]
Caught on Tape: “Let’s make sure that thing’s not on…”
March 8, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Civil Justice, Consumer Protections, Recent Blog Posts, Workers Rights
It’s true, as Jeff Woods wrote in Pith in the Wind (the political blog of theNashville Scene), that there may be worse gaffes “caught on tape” than the one Rep. Jimmy Eldridge made this week. But for a worker who is facing deep cuts to their paycheck while they are recovering from being injured on the job, his gaffe [...]
VIDEO: Chairman Caught on Tape Vowing to Ram Workers’ Comp Bill Through Committee
March 7, 2013 by Mary Mancini
Filed under Civil Justice, Consumer Protections, Recent Blog Posts, Workers Rights
The Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind blog has the video and the story: For embarrassing open-mic gaffes, it’s not exactly up there with Ronald Reagan joking about bombing Russia. But it’ll do until something worse comes along for state Rep. Jimmy Eldridge, the Republican chairman of the House Consumer and Human Resources Committee. Eldridge [...]
