Picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signals something big: Worker rights, and pro-worker policies, are back at the forefront of Democratic politics. On Tuesday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Walz as her running mate—arguably a progressive pick, given the...
Labor leaders in eastern Iowa called out Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Republicans who backed new laws to loosen child labor, and tied it to Project 2025's goal of loosening child labor nationwide during a forum in Cedar Rapids last week. Rick Moyle, executive...
Iowa worker rights advocates and other progressive organizations were mostly hopeful, if not outright excited, about the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee for president. Unless you were falling out of a coconut tree since...
A Des Moines woman is recording and archiving footage to tell the unvarnished truth about the Russia-Ukraine War. Russia's war on Ukraine began in February 2022. However, Ann Vorhees of Des Moines started collecting video from it recently after a conversation she...
A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers there say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize in May. Out of 17 eligible...
You probably heard about the very public bankruptcy of Iowa City's *other* hospital, Mercy Iowa City, and how around 1,000 jobs were saved when the University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) agreed to buy Mercy, changing the hospital's name to UI Health Care Medical...
If you're looking for some summer football, check out these five Iowa arena football and indoor football teams. It's not the exact same game as you see in the fall. But with its shorter field, fast-paced action, and ability to run up the score quickly, arena...
Workers at Bruegger's Bagels, a nationwide bakery chain, are trying to unionize—and, surprisingly, the effort is starting in Iowa, a state with some of the fewest rights for workers in the country.
Watch an Iowa minor league baseball team in a city near you. Baseball season is upon us, and while Iowa has no Major League Baseball (MLB) teams in residence (unless it's the day they're playing at the Field of Dreams), we've got three minor league baseball (MiLB)...
Check out a semi-pro Iowa baseball game this summer. There's nothing better than catching a baseball game in the summertime. But if you're only catching the minor league Iowa teams, you're missing out on some great talent: The smaller teams, many of them summer...
