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Join with fellow union members and working people of the Tennessee Valley to tell Congress to Keep TVA Locally Run and Locally Accountable!

TVA works for the people of the Tennessee Valley, with a mandate to deliver reliable and affordable electricity to 10 million people in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. TVA serves the public by delivering power to the people of the seven-state service area, protecting the region’s natural resources, and supporting economic development of the Tennessee Valley.

Though TVA is government-owned, it funds itself by selling electricity and raising additional money through bond sales, the same as a privately-owned utility. It does not take in any federally appropriated funding.

TVA’s 9-member board of directors is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In recent weeks, President Trump has removed several members of the TVA board, leaving just 3 members on the board, and has now sent 5 board nominees to the Senate. This would be a massive overhaul of the TVA board and could change TVA’s public service mission and even result in the privatization of TVA – selling TVA to the private sector would raise electricity rates and could harm service reliability, delay investments in clean energy, and change TVA’s foundation of economic development for

America built TVA from the ground up in 1935, and TVA has delivered safe, reliable, efficient electricity for the Tennessee Valley service area for the last 90 years.  Today, TVA is uniquely qualified to build America’s first Small Modular Reactor (SMR) or new advanced large-scale nuclear plants.

TVA workers are ready and able to move us into the future. We have the expertise and knowledge.   TVA leadership is working in partnership with unions to power our 21^st century economy.  We are ready. We do not need to be fixed! We need to be unleashed to do what we know how to do.

Tell President Donald Trump and Members of Congress that America has a tried and true gem, a national treasure, in TVA.

Let’s protect our low power rates that affect every working family in the TVA service area from 12-15% rate increases. Let’s protect those who have served the Valley residents and businesses, those who have lived and worked here for nearly a full century.