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✊ Putting the Labor Back in Labor Day
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. This Monday is Labor Day, but only in the US and Canada (where it’s Labour Day). And, since this is the Worker’s Almanac, it’s more than a day off for us! Most other countries celebrate International Workers’ Day, or May Day, on May 1…
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✊ At DNC, Unions Take Center Stage
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The heads of several unions spoke on Monday, the first night of the Democratic National Convention, which continues through tomorrow in Chicago. Showing up to praise the Biden-Harris administration, and denounce how Trump treated working Americans, were: Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, an…
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🗳️ Who Is Tim Walz and Is He Pro-Worker?
Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate—arguably a progressive pick, given the laws Walz has signed as governor that have propelled Minnesota into an escape state for many of Iowa’s more liberal-minded folks. But picking Walz also…
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🗳️ Why Labor Leaders Like Harris
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 24, 2024. Unless you were falling out of a coconut tree since Sunday, you already heard the news that President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, instead. (Democrats will officially decide…
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☕️ 2nd Starbucks in Iowa Unionizes: Here’s How
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 17, 2024. A second Starbucks has officially unionized in Iowa—and two workers I spoke with say they were almost the first. Eighteen workers at the Starbucks store on East 53rd Street in Davenport filed with the National Labor Relations Board…
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🏥 Mercy Workers Say They Were Ignored in Hospital Merger
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday: July 10, 2024. You probably heard about the very public bankruptcy of Iowa City’s *other* hospital, Mercy Iowa City. You may have also heard that the hospital and around 1,000 jobs were saved when University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) agreed…
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🏡 Flood Hits Northwest Iowa (And More Coming)
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 26, 2024. I was planning to write about the Iowa governor vs. labor this week: Gov. Kim Reynolds was to appear in North Liberty Monday after the federal government cracked down on restaurants following Iowa’s lax child labor laws, which go…
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❗️Gov. Reynolds Is Mad A Judge Just Blocked This Law
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 19, 2024. “As a matter of politics, the new legislation might be defensible. As a matter of constitutional law, it is not.” That’s US District Judge Stephen Locher, issuing a temporary injunction against Iowa’s SF 2340. It’s a win for the…
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🪧 This Law is ‘Absurd Political Theater’
The newsletter for Iowa’s working class Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Recent Iowa immigrants and allies are still fighting against an Iowa immigration law they say unfairly discriminates against and targets them. Lawyers with the US Department of Justice and the American Immigration Council argued in court Monday that a…
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🦺 Iowa Construction Worker Killed on I-80
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 29, 2024. An Iowa highway worker was killed on Interstate 80 near Weston, Iowa, earlier this month. Matthew Dickerson, 36, of Neola was working to patch holes in the left lane of eastbound I-80 on May 16…
