MLGW, IBEW settle contract impasse
A four-year labor contract instead of a three-year pact between MLGW and the IBEW, coupled with half a percentage point, wound up being the compromise that settled the contract impasse between the two. (Houston Cofield/Daily Memphian file)
Utility workers for the city-owned utility get pay raises the next four years under the compromise that scrubbed a city council session to break the labor contract impasse.
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