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Finance officials expect no growth next year

Hard decisions will have to be made in the coming Metro budget season, and the city’s employees and school system are among those angling for their piece of the pie.

When Freddie O'Connell was a district council member, he was miffed that a former mayor sidelined the Metro Council on a major transit push.

This article is part of a two-story cover package on labor in Tennessee. See also: "Right-to-Work Policy Makes Its Way to the State Constitution: Though organized labor is ‘woven in

Earlier this month, Nashville residents told Metro Council they want the city’s help getting community needs met. They say the rezoning of an East

Tweet Share Vonda McDaniel Vonda McDaniel has seen a lot of changes in her nearly 30 years of labor organizing. McDaniel first joined a union in 1992, at the Firestone-Bridgestone tire factory in La Vergne where she worked. In a matter of months, she was elected as the shop steward, and that kicked off a lifetime of workers’ rights advocacy. In 2013, McDaniel was elected president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, an affiliation of mor...