Through days topping 90 degrees with no shade and days at 11 degrees below zero coupled with dangerous wind chills, unionized workers in Cedar Rapids held the line for nearly six months despite the pressures of being out of work. On Sunday, after 175 days on the...
Workers who have been on strike since last summer at an ingredient and starch manufacturer in Cedar Rapids will be voting on a potential contract this weekend. The contract's details were slowly hammered out since around 116 workers at Ingredion—organized with the...
Iowa Senate Democrats filed a bill decriminalizing personal amounts of marijuana and allowing cities to OK retail shops selling it, even though majority Republicans are unlikely to pass this one to the left. As national Democrats slowly try to grind away at the...
Faculty at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) say their pay hasn't kept up with inflation for years, and are asking the Iowa Board of Regents for nearly 10% raises to make up for it. United Faculty UNI, which represents around 500 professors, associate...
Gov. Kim Reynolds says her 2017 law gutting collective bargaining for many state and local workers was "badly needed" and "Iowans are better for it." But advocates for those workers say the opposite has been true in the past six years, with fewer employees handling...
An Iowa City company started during the pandemic as the "last mile" delivery service for Amazon will close next month. GRIT Delivers LLC, which delivered Amazon packages in Amazon-branded delivery vehicles to the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area, notified the state it...
A manufacturing plant and major employer in northeast Iowa will close next month, leaving 45 workers out of a job. Commercial Vehicle Group (CVG), an Ohio-based international company that supplies components for the commercial vehicle market, announced in October...
Iowa workers on strike since May have rejected the latest offer from Case-New Holland International to return to work, saying the company wasn't even offering what replacement workers are currently making. The strike of more than 1,000 workers involves United Auto...
As Iowa lawmakers kick off the 2023 session today, advocates for Iowa's working people worry majority Republicans will continue to pass more legislation that will hurt working families. "I just hope there aren't any more economic attacks," said Felicia Hilton,...
A facility specifically for those with dementia will close Friday, while an assisted living facility associated with it is set to close next month, leaving 26 residents and their families with one less option and 48 workers out of a job. The board of Country Winds...
