One more weekend of early voting and then it’s the four-day sprint to election day for candidates, their campaigns and the voters who didn’t vote during the early voting period.

Because of the length of the ballot – the longest of any election cycle in Shelby County political history – state election officials are encouraging voters who have made their decisions to vote early.

2. City Sanitation Changes Start With Fragile Pact - Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Changes in city sanitation services would move toward a plan that could change decades of a system in which anything Memphians put by the curb gets picked up for a monthly solid waste fee, no matter how much is on the curb.

3. Plan Changes City’s Garbage Collection - Tuesday, August 20, 2013

City Public Works officials and the municipal union representing sanitation workers have reached an agreement on a plan to increase the workload for sanitation workers, move toward broader and easier recycling measures, and use some of the savings from the plan to fund a retirement supplement for older workers.

4. AFSCME Union Names Tyree Interim Director - Saturday, July 20, 2013

Gail Tyree, the assistant director of local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, becomes the interim executive director of the Memphis local effective July 22.

5. AFSCME Union Names Tyree Interim Director - Thursday, July 18, 2013

Gail Tyree, the assistant director of local 1733 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, becomes the interim executive director of the Memphis local effective July 22.

6. Memphis March Honors Slain Civil Rights Leader King - Friday, April 5, 2013

MEMPHIS (AP) – Hundreds of union members and their supporters marched in Memphis on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder, calling for a new commitment to the human rights causes he died for.

7. MED Reduces Some Employee Hours - Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Regional Medical Center at Memphis is reducing the hours of employees who work in transportation, telemetry and its call center to meet its 2013 budget goals.

Angie Herron Golding, the director of communications and marketing for The MED, said staffing levels are determined by department and the reduced hours are the result of areas “significantly over budget.” No positions will be eliminated and there has not been any reduction of hours or staff as an overall organization, she said. The MED declined to provide an estimate of how many workers will be impacted by the cuts.

8. Midtown Momentum - Saturday, December 22, 2012

The Midtown real estate market has long been an anomaly compared to its Bluff City counterparts, with fundamentals as diverse as its demographics.

“The types of real estate that you’ll find in Midtown can be some of the most expensive or some of the most modest when it comes to prices and facility,” said Gary Myers of Gary Myers Co. “Retail in particular.”

9. Kroger Buys Union Space for Expansion - Friday, September 14, 2012

Kroger has acquired the Belvedere Apartments in Midtown as part of a long-term project to reconfigure the grocery store’s antiquated and challenged layout.

Kroger Delta Division closed Wednesday, Sept. 12, on the 10-story apartment high-rise at 1733 Union Ave. from Belvedere Apartment Inc. The sale includes Belvedere’s attached and front parking areas.

10. Kroger Midtown Buys Space for Expansion - Thursday, September 13, 2012

Kroger has acquired the Belvedere Apartments in Midtown as part of a long-term project to reconfigure the grocery store’s antiquated and challenged layout.

Kroger Delta Division closed Wednesday, Sept. 12, on the 10-story apartment high-rise at 1733 Union Ave. from Belvedere Apartment Inc. The sale includes Belvedere’s attached and front parking areas.

11. Budget Redux - Monday, August 1, 2011

Every July 1, the city’s budget deliberations are supposed to be over and the fiscal year should be under way.

Even when that happens, which is most of the time, there is an understanding that the budget is a plan that may change because of conditions that cause Memphis to spend more than it planned or for revenues to fluctuate. But items like how much to pay city employees are always set in stone. Except this year.

12. Municipal Unions Rally Against Conrad Proposal - Friday, June 3, 2011

Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. said Thursday, June 2, he is not “seeking privatization of any of the positions” held by members of the union that represents the city’s sanitation workers.

Wharton’s written statement came the day after Memphis City Council member Kemp Conrad presented a plan for balancing the city’s operating budget in the new fiscal year and beyond with several measures including privatizing or outsourcing the city’s garbage collection.

13. Labor Leaders Remembrance of MLK Timely - Friday, April 1, 2011

Organized labor supporters from around the country will descend on Memphis Monday to join members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1733 in solidarity as they march through Downtown’s streets on the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

14. Archived Article: Lead - Thursday, June 9, 2005
By Andy Meek

Jail Privatization Discussion Continues

Florida-based company offers alternative proposal

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

Shelby County government is still deciding whether to let a private firm manage the countys corrections ce...

15. Archived Article: Benchmark - Thursday, September 11, 1997
Mary Woods vs Mary Woods vs. Memphis Housing Authority. According to the suit, the plaintiff was hired by Memphis Housing Authority on Nov. 14, 1979, as a teacher aide and was discharged from MHA on Sept. 6, 1996. The suit alleges the plaintiffs dis...

16. Archived Article: Benchmark Chg - Thursday, January 2, 1997
Career Consultants Inc Career Consultants Inc. dba Bernard Haldane Associates vs. Wallace Ralston. An Oklahoma company doing business in Memphis as Bernard Haldane Associates is suing a Memphis man in Circuit Court for breach of contract. According ...