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...
A large Marshalltown employer will lay off more than a hundred people—in the very city where the company began. Lennox Industries will lay off 114 workers on Jan. 16, according to Iowa's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act website. The company...
More than 400 manufacturing workers who have been striking since May 2 will get the chance to vote on a possible contract for the first time this weekend. United Auto Workers (UAW) released a statement Monday saying they had finally received an offer from Case New...
Ninoska Campos is a force to be reckoned with. She speaks little English, but is a native Spanish speaker—a language spoken by many immigrant meatpacking and farm workers in many southeastern Iowa manufacturing towns. Over the past year and a half, she has rallied...
If you took a class at the University of Iowa lately, it's likely that class was taught not by a full-time professor, but by a graduate student teaching assistant. That's common across many large research universities in the US. But those graduate students are...
Iowa remains one of the states least friendly to labor organizing and worker power. But the cracks are starting to show. Iowa workers filed 14 representation cases with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the 2022 fiscal year, an increase of 180% compared...
