Facilities workers at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville were joined by students, faculty and others from the Knoxville community Monday as they rallied to protest plans to potentially outsource facilities jobs on campus.
A news release from United Campus Workers, the union representing facilities workers at UT, said the protest was organized to coincide with the start of a new academic year and “send a clear message: keep our jobs on campus.”
About 200 people showed up to protest the outsourcing plan, an initiative of Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration that seeks to privatize the work of facilities employees at public colleges and universities across the state.
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