Working news you can use, plus Iowa layoffs this month
Here’s a quick look at the week’s top news affecting Iowa workers and the workplace:
Jun
2025
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Jun
2025
18
Tenants union in Johnson Co. unveils demands on owner Havenpark
Residents are calling on Havenpark to institute "a two-year moratorium on lot rent increases" and said park owners needed "to provide clean, safe drinkable water, essential park maintenance, and responsive on-site management in all parks."
May
2025
30
Nurses are overworked. Rivers Hills workers hope unionization helps
Workers at River Hills Community Health Centers in south central Iowa were fed up with being overworked and seeing their patients suffer as a result. So they decided to unionize. Over a hundred...
May
2025
23
JBS workers at 2 Iowa plants win back pensions in national contract
Meatpacking workers at JBS plants across the country, including two in Iowa, just ratified a first-ever national contract across all plants.
May
2025
8
How’s the labor market look for Iowa graduates?
Trump's attacks on the federal workforce, apprenticeships, and higher education, plus tariffs that threaten to increase prices on everything, could erase the strong labor market for Iowa graduates.
Apr
2025
25
What does Kilmar Abrego Garcia have to do with Iowa immigrants?
I saw a few "Free Kilmar" signs at the latest protest I covered this weekend, and for good reason: Folks are worried about what it means that the Trump administration is deporting people directly...
Apr
2025
1
651 laid off at Whirlpool in Amana
On Tuesday, news broke that 651 Iowans are soon to be laid off by June 1 from Whirlpool in Amana. That's about a third of its workforce.
Mar
2025
7
How to protect your trans coworkers now that Iowa won’t
If Iowa employers can now fire our transgender and nonbinary coworkers simply for being trans and nonbinary, how can we protect them?
Feb
2025
12
Bettendorf Starbucks could be 3rd in Iowa to unionize
As Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) members representing more than 500 Starbucks stores nationwide prepare for mediation with their company—a huge step in their quest to begin bargaining a first...
Feb
2025
5
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).
