Labor
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac: News and layoffs for Nov. 20, 2025
News briefs for the Iowa working class for the week of Nov. 20, 2025:
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Mt. Pleasant landscaper Noel Lopez De La Cruz facing deportation. Here’s how you can help
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 to New Orleans. But deportations of immigrant workers continue to happen everywhere—including in Iowa. The latest: Noel Lopez De La Cruz, a 24-year-old landscaper from Mount Pleasant…
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news briefs for Nov. 14, 2025
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 Keosauqua on Monday she thinks she “strengthened and preserved Medicaid” when she voted to approve President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill—despite attendees pointing…
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UAW president unloads on CNH after Burlington plant closure announcement
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.
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac layoffs and news for Nov. 6, 2025
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 Trump’s punitive tariffs. Last week, after Trump lowered his tariff to 10%, China agreed to buy 12 million tons this year, less than half of what it usually…
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Nov. 1 is a big day in the government shutdown—here’s why
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: Nov. 1 is when SNAP benefits will end for 42 million Americans, the first time it will have ever happened. That includes 267,000 Iowans…
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news for Oct. 30
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 months. US Sen. Joni Ernst, who is retiring, and US Rep. Zach Nunn, running for reelection, signed onto a letter…
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news for the week of Oct. 23, 2025
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 Argentina. “We encourage the administration to resist actions that negatively impact the cattle farmers in Iowa and domestic beef production,” said Farm Bureau president Brent…
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Shutdown means no pay for 10K Iowa workers
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 the Iowa Federation of Labor. “Working people are already struggling to pay our bills, and the Trump administration is offering no relief,” the group…
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Iowa Worker’s Almanac: Layoffs and news, Oct. 16, 2025
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 Saturday, Oct. 18—and there’s likely one near you. The federal government shutdown continues: As the shutdown, which began Oct. 1, drags on, furloughed federal workers can’t pay their bills, Trump…
