Nunn, Ernst beg Trump for China deal: President Donald Trump is supposed to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping today to iron out a trade deal after China has refused to buy US soybeans for...
Iowa Worker's Almanac: Week of 10/23/25 Iowa farm lobby pushes back on Trump: The Iowa Farm Bureau is among those pushing back against President Donald Trump's comments on importing beef from...
The ongoing federal government shutdown is resulting in lots of Iowans not being paid—and it's not just federal workers. There are more than 10,000 Iowans who are federal workers, according to...
News about and for the Iowa working class. 'No Kings' is back: The Indivisible-organized protests against President Donald Trump's authoritarianism, which first took place in June, are back this...
Another young college graduate from Iowa can't find any sort of entry-level job, she told me last week. And AI may be to blame. Meghan Holloran just graduated from Drake University this May with...
What does a government shutdown mean for you? Politico has some good information here. (Also, the National Labor Relations Board site appears to be down, possibly because of this, so you may not...
Another group of workers won a pension back; it's spreading! Around 186 workers at Kemps, a dairy plant in Le Mars, have won raises, a new health care plan, and a defined benefit pension in their...
This week's Iowa Worker's Almanac news briefs: Iowa ranks 43rd for teachers: A new WalletHub ranking puts Iowa 43rd of the 50 states and DC for teachers, taking into account opportunity,...
Union rallies for Fort Madison prison workers: Prison health care workers unionized with AFSCME Council 61 held a rally Wednesday against a proposal from the state that would outsource prison...
Miller-Meeks said she liked clean energy tax credits, but her vote for the Big Beautiful Bill shows she didn't care, writes Stefanie Warnick, a union construction worker with the Laborers’...
