Hamilton County officials will meet with their state delegation today to propose legislative changes for next year’s session of the General Assembly.
County Mayor Jim Coppinger released a draft of his priority list to county commissioners Thursday for comment. The lunch meeting to discuss the list will be at 11:30 a.m. at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.
Commissioner Warren Mackey criticized Coppinger’s inclusion of a request to “oppose mandatory collective bargaining between local governments and labor unions.”
“The government ought to serve people and not the people serve the government,” Mackey said.
“It’s the ‘mandatory’ collective bargaining I’m opposed to,” Coppinger said. “We keep an open line of communication with our employees.”