The national escalating Starbucks strike, intended to bring the company back to the bargaining table, began with several stores across the country on Nov. 13, and two of Iowa's four union Starbucks stores joined Dec. 4—Iowa City and Des Moines.
Working class news you can use: Voting on a union: The UnityPoint vote among 1,776 health care professionals at four Des Moines hospitals on whether to join Teamsters Local 90 was held Dec. 7-9....
Two of Iowa's four unionized Starbucks locations joined a national Starbucks Workers United escalating strike today.
After a delayed vote because of the government shutdown, hundreds of nurses at four UnityPoint Health hospitals in the Des Moines area are voting this weekend on whether to unionize with...
News briefs for the Iowa working class for the week of Nov. 20, 2025:
The kidnapping goon squad gutting our workforce keeps rolling to more cities across the US. Its newest target is Charlotte, North Carolina, and soon ICE and Border Patrol will bring their terror...
News for the Iowa working class for Nov. 14, 2025: Rural hospitals? Never heard of her: At her first in-person town hall in more than a year, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Iowans in...
Case New Holland (CNH) announced it would close its Burlington plant by mid-2026, with 200 workers laid off as a result. But the labor union wasn't going to take that sitting down.
Iowa Worker's Almanac news briefs: China agrees to buy soybeans, ending monthslong standoff: The world's largest buyer of soybeans refused to buy anything from the US for months because of...
Saturday is Nov. 1, and Nov. 1 is when the monthlong federal government shutdown—assuming it hasn't been lifted—will become very personal and very real. There are two big reasons for that. First:...
