The newsletter for the Iowa worker.
It’s Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024.
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To me, these numbers seem too low for what the true housing cost is these days (and quite low on the food budget, food costs have SKYROCKETED). On the other end, I think transportation is too high in this estimate, but I also work from home.
I’m curious of your reaction when you put in your city: Send it to me here, I might print a few of them next edition.
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This week’s Iowa worker news:
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Show me the money: The Biden administration is now requiring all federal agencies and contractors to disclose salary ranges in all job postings. It’s scheduled to go into effect by April.
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Starbucks won’t stop fighting its unions, so it’s now going all the way to the Supreme Court. The case is a bit complicated, but is basically asking whether the National Labor Relations Board can get involved in supporting unfairly fired workers.
- Thank a snowplow driver: The Iowa Department of Transportation is spotlighting its workers, especially crews that worked 12- to 16-hour days for 16 days straight during the snowstorms last month. It’s definitely worth reading some of those workers’ stories.
Michigan coach suggests athletes unionize: Sure, the top college athletes can now score their own individual Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals worth a pretty penny (look at Caitlin Clark’s deals with Hy-Vee and State Farm). But why shouldn’t all athletes benefit from a system that makes millions off of their labor? That’s the question famed Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh suggested after his team won the championship last month:
“Let the talent share in the ever-increasing revenues.”
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Prison labor in the US is the last form of legal slavery. Inmates are forced to work, making just pennies on the dollar, doing some of the most dangerous work with no protections.
And, as an Associated Press investigation revealed, that labor is padding the bottom lines of some of the biggest corporations in the world.
McDonalds. Walmart. Target. Aldi. Whole Foods. And more.
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