TN Citizen Action Calls Governor’s Response “Bizarre,” Urges Action by State House

In response to today’s Tennessean story – you know, the one where the Governor’s spokesperson says that the Governor’s proposal to move the workers’ compensation to the Departement of Labor and Workforce Development and the problems in the labor department were unrelated? – TN Citizen Action executive director Mary Mancini released the following statement (pasted below). [...]

PLEASE SHARE: The Big Picture in TN – Waste, Abuse & Mismanagement

THE TRUTH ABOUT TENNESSEE STATE GOVERNMENT This week we’re starting off with a request - please share this short but time-sensitive email with as many of your friends, family, co-wokers across the state as you can. It’s beyond time to tell the truth about what’s happening in Tennessee state government! WASTE, ABUSE & MISMANAGMENT This week findings of the State [...]

The Big Picture: Grants, Giveaways, Cuts & Sacrifices

The Big Picture in Tennessee State Government: grants & giveaways for corporations, cuts & sacrifices for working folks. The conservative majority in the Tennessee Legislature want to ”slash dependent benefits for unemployed Tennesseans and starve poor kids who don’t get good grades in public schools while the Governor appropriates funds to increase the amount of cash giveaways to corporations looking to [...]

Clearly Not the Time to Give the Department of Labor The Responsibility of Handling More Taxpayer Dollars

The Department of Labor and Workforce development is rife with mismanagement that negatively affects both workers and businesses and Governor Bill Haslam wants to add another division to it paid for by millions of taxpayer dollars? Apparently he thinks this is a brilliant idea ’cause that’s what his workers’ comp bill does – adds a [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Haslam’s Answer Is Yet Another Non-Answer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                    April 3, 2013  Contact: Mary Mancini 615-736-6040 mary@tnca.org GOVERNOR’S ANSWER ON MISMANAGEMENT WITHIN DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IS YET ANOTHER NON-ANSWER Nashville, Tenn. (April 3, 2013) – Yesterday, in response to the call [...]

Citizen Action to Governor Haslam: Delay Workers’ Comp Changes Until You Fix Gross Mismanagement WIthin Department of Labor

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 [...]

Rally to Protect TN Workers Injured on the Job

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 [...]

Caught on Tape: “Let’s make sure that thing’s not on…”

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

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 [...]

TN Citizen Action Urges Legislators to Keep Workers’ Comp System Fair and Impartial

In response to the presentation Workers’ Compensation Division Administrator, Abbie Hudgins, made to the House Consumer and Human Resources Committee on Tuesday, February 19, Tennessee Citizen Action Executive Director, Mary Mancini, released the following statement: “Yesterday, Ms. Hudgins claimed that the Governor wants changes to the Workers’ Compensation system in Tennessee in order to create [...]

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