City of Memphis Charter Amendment - Civil Service Status for Memphis and Shelby County Public Library Employees
What does this measure do?
Memphis and Shelby County Public Library employees would no longer be excluded from civil service under the city charter, so they could get civil service job protections, while library officers would stay exempt. Library workers would gain the same job protections as other city employees.
Read the official ballot measure (PDF)
Proposed by: Memphis City Council (Ordinance No. 5966, sponsor Councilman JB Smiley Jr. and nine others)
Smiley is a Memphis city councilman. He backs MPL Workers United, the library workers' union. It wants library staff to get the job protections and bargaining rights other city workers have.
Source: actionnews5.com
A YES vote means
Library employees could be covered by civil service job protections. Library officers would still not be covered.
A NO vote means
The charter keeps excluding all library officers and employees from civil service job protections.
No financial records found for this ballot measure.
Source: memphistn.gov
Source: memphistn.gov