There are 4 article(s) tagged Memphis Fire Fighters Association:

• September 2025

  • City of Memphis questions legality of its employee unions

    The city argues that there’s nothing in its charter that gives city employees the right to collectively bargain as a union. 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 15, 2025

• July 2025

  • Memphis Fire Fighters Association sues city over budget decisions

    The Memphis Fire Fighters Association has sued the City of Memphis over reneging the union’s planned 5% raise for the current fiscal year. 

    By Samuel Hardiman July 18, 2025

• September 2019

  • Memphis police, fire associations seek ‘For’ vote on sales-tax referendum

    'Until we get serious about rebuilding our police and fire departments and fixing our retention problem, we will never be able to proactively attack the issue of crime.'

    By John Covington, Matthew Tomek September 17, 2019

• January 2019

  • Police, fire unions want sales tax hike to fund restoring their benefits

    Memphis police and fire unions are again seeking to increase the sales tax rate by half a cent to restore their benefits and pensions, but also to help pay for road repairs and pre-K programs. 

    By Yolanda Jones January 14, 2019