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Amazon To Cock-Block Local Businesses This Holiday Seasonnew

Internet instant gratification behemoth Amazon is telling hopeful consumers to go into local retailers and photograph inventory prices in exchange for a paltry 5 percent discount (up to $5) on Amazon-equivalent products.

Nashville Scene | Jonathan Meador | 12-07-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Buy Local, WTF, #Occupy, Amazon.com

The Unkindest Cutnew

A Nashville company fires a recently paralyzed teenage employee, cutting off her medical coverage — and raising doubts about health care reform.

Nashville Scene | Jonathan Meador | 09-06-2011 | Business & Labor

Tags: Health Care Reform, HCR, Chelsie Nitschke

Steve Ganaway: Business Mogul or Nashville's Numbers King?new

Listening to Nashville businessman Steve Ganaway talk earnestly about community development, it's hard to believe he's a man with the time — much less desire — to run a sprawling numbers game. Then again, Ganaway's business is show business, where perception and reality have always been worlds apart.

Nashville Scene | P.J. Tobia | 01-30-2009 | Business & Labor

Tags: business, gambling, Nashville, Steve Ganaway

A Union Takes a Beating at Vought Aircraftnew

Clutches of men in steel-toes and Carhartt coats waited for votes to be tallied. They were voting on a contract that entailed drastic cuts to pensions, mandatory overtime and a stripping of seniority rules. Among the many groupings of men, some pontificated about the union's fate. "If it doesn't pass, the union is broken," said one.

Nashville Scene | Brantley Hargrove | 01-23-2009 | Business & Labor

Tags: unions, IAMAW Local 735, Vought Aircraft