Elon Musk is steamrolling worker rights; here’s the latest
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues his unconstitutional steamrolling through the federal government under the guise of "efficiency" (with President Donald Trump's blessing).
Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues his unconstitutional steamrolling through the federal government under the guise of "efficiency" (with President Donald Trump's blessing).
Remember the 14+ Seneca workers in Des Moines who left their jobs after their company switched the equipment they knew how to service, and then got sued by Seneca over their noncompete agreements? The company has now dropped lawsuits against at least two of those...
It's likely that Iowa, where agriculture is the largest part of our economy, where immigration accounts for the vast majority of the state's growth, and where voters once again voted for Trump, could see these effects in a pronounced way.
Iowa started rolling back protections for child workers in 2023, and new child labor rules were published Wednesday to roll more protections back.
Another round of layoffs at John Deere is coming to Iowa.
Yesterday, the Iowa Farm Bureau actually quantified those losses for the state's vast, 385,000-person agriculture workforce. And it's not good.
Cargill strike news: The Cedar Rapids company and Teamsters Local 238 have ratified an agreement to end the monthlong strike.
At Thursday's rally at Cargill Corn Milling in Cedar Rapids, where around 100 Teamsters-affiliated workers have been on a Cargill strike since Oct. 1, workers talked about the disrespect they say they've gotten from their company during negotiations.
Workers say that the company not respecting them is a major factor of why there's an ongoing Cargill Cedar Rapids strike.
Around 100 workers at Cargill Corn Milling in Cedar Rapids are officially on strike.