Female electricians in the Midwest are ready to fight for equality. Women within the 11th District of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are waiting on a charter to be finalized, which will establish the first Women's Committee within the district...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Dubuque is expanding its footprint by adding some nontraditional members to its ranks — hotel workers. In June, there was only one unionized hotel in Iowa. Casino and hotel workers at Prairie Meadows in Altoona...
Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South...
Iowa Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley voted to confirm Chad Wolf as the Department of Homeland Secretary undersecretary. It's a move that propelled Wolf, a man who suggested immigrant children be separated from their families at the country's southern border,...
It has been a busy week for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Local 110 of Cedar Rapids. Nearly 700 workers of the RWDSU Local 110 ratified a new contract agreement with Quaker Oats last night, narrowly avoiding a strike. What's more, the 500 RWDSU...
Harold Schaitberger is the international president of a 320,000-person union and leads the ninth-largest federal union PAC in the United States, but he has one thing on his mind come caucus night: where to put the Joe Biden posters so voters can easily see them as...
A 33-year-old from Kansas City hitched a ride from a friend in St. Louis to stand in the cold and rain for more than four hours to meet Andrew Yang and experience Yangapalooza this past Friday. Yangapalooza featured several hours of live entertainment from Chef...
Democrat J.D. Scholten is looking for supporters in the most unlikely of places — the smallest towns west of I-35. The 39-county congressional district Scholten is trying to win in Northwest Iowa has historically been the most conservative in the state. Residents...
Hundreds of people and eight 2020 Democratic presidential candidates showed up to Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer's inaugural fish fry in Cedar Rapids Saturday afternoon to discuss issues important to unions. The Fish Fry was co-hosted by the IBEW PAC, the...
Fifty-two units covered by AFSCME and 96 percent of the Iowa public employee associations voted to retain union representation during a two-week re-certification election this week. Polls closed Tuesday on the re-certification elections that are now required by...
