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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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🐈⬛ A Childless Cat Lady Wrote This
Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: Aug. 2, 2024. 🐈 I genuinely don’t get why folks like vice presidential nominee JD Vance think childless cat ladies don’t care about our country’s future. As if people need to birth a child to want a better world for future generations? To me, it sounds…
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🥇 Iowans in the Paris Olympics
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 26, 2024. 🔥 What a week, huh? After a news-filled last couple of weeks, we can all come together as a country and root for Team USA in the Paris Olympics, which kick off today! 🏃 Read up on…
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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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👨🏫 Ty Is Leaving Us And We Are Not OK
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 19, 2024. 😢 Today, Starting Line is without its chief political correspondent, newsroom leader, and all-around great guy to work with. Ty Rushing’s last day with Iowa Starting Line was yesterday. He’ll join the University of Iowa faculty in…
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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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🌞 Baseball, the Best Ice Cream, and Your Guide to the State Fair
Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s the Friday news roundup: July 12, 2024. Inside baseball: Iowa Rep. JD Scholten was back on the mound this past weekend, as a last-choice fill-in pitcher for the Sioux City Explorers, and the 44-year-old was so good in nearly 7 innings of work that he…
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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…
