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Library workers press council for civil-service status and union rights; public commenters urge poverty action and raise infrastructure concerns
Summary
During public comment, Memphis Public Library workers urged the council to amend the city charter to grant civil-service status and to exempt library workers from an executive order restricting unionization. Other public speakers urged sustained investments to address poverty and raised neighborhood concerns about pole cabling.
Several members of the public used the Oct. 7 public comment period to press the council on labor and equity issues, housing and neighborhood infrastructure.
Multiple speakers representing Memphis Public Libraries asked the council to amend the city charter to make library workers civil-service employees or, at minimum, to exempt library workers from a 1984 executive order that the speakers said denies appointed employees the right to unionize. Speakers said they…
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