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You think Iowa is hollowing out now? Just wait
News about and for the working class Share with a friend It’s Thursday, July 17, 2025. As part of our Cancer in Iowa series (starting next week!), Zachary and I are looking for Iowans who have concerns that the chemicals, processes, or other things in your workplace may be cancer-causing—or have already caused cancer…
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ICE in Iowa: West Liberty man detained with no record
Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, July 2, 2025. It’s happening in Iowa. Pascual Leonardo Pedro-Pedro, 20, of West Liberty, went to a routine annual immigration check-in yesterday (Tuesday)—abiding by what the government is asking him to do as an immigrant—and was detained by ICE. Pedro-Pedro was brought to the US as…
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📈 Are you worried about higher food prices?
Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Iowans are worried about food prices. But they’re especially worried that the policies of the Trump administration (namely, his tariffs on foreign goods) will cause prices to rise further. That’s not some left-leaning think tank study, by the way; that’s according to the latest…
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Tenants union in Johnson Co. goes on offense against private equity
Share with a friend It’s Wednesday, June 18, 2025. Remember the 2023 story of mobile home residents in Johnson County whose parks were bought by investment company Havenpark Communities, then had their services taken away while their lot rents were jacked up? They started a couple of tenants’ unions—the Iowa Manufactured Home Residents…
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Regents try their own diversity ban. Professors fight it
Share with a friend It’s Friday, June 13, 2025. If you haven’t already, please take our short survey about Iowa Worker’s Almanac. Thanks! ~Amie The Iowa Legislature passed a bill this session banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and trainings by “public entities,” including Iowa’s public universities. And they spelled out exactly…
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Fighting Against Local ICE Agreements—And Winning
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, June 5, 2025. Can you take this short survey? We’re trying to see what people like and don’t like about Iowa Worker’s Almanac, and you can help. Thanks! ~Amie Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is raiding workplaces across the country, showing up in tanks and wearing tactical…
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Health Care Workers Say They’re Overworked and Patients Suffer
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, May 29, 2025. Workers at River Hills Community Health Centers in south central Iowa were fed up with being overworked and seeing their patients suffer as a result. So they decided to unionize. Over a hundred workers across six River Hills clinics announced this week in Ottumwa…
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Pensions Are Dead? Not For These Iowa Workers
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, May 22, 2025. Meatpacking workers at JBS plants across the country, including two in Iowa, just ratified a first-ever national contract across all plants. And they got their pensions back for the first time in 40 years. Brazil-based JBS, one of the world’s largest meatpacking companies, and…
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How’s the Labor Market Look for Iowa Graduates?
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, May 8, 2025. Amie here. Happy graduation month to Iowa’s newest high school and college grads! Though they’re graduating into a strong labor market—teens and young 20-somethings have had higher wage growth since 2020, and are more employed than other age groups—Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce, apprenticeships,…
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Find a May Day Rally in Iowa
Share with a friend It’s Thursday, May 1, 2025. Amie here. Happy International Workers’ Day, celebrated by all the countries around the world except the US and Canada (because we’re mad about its socialist underpinnings). It’s also the basis for today’s May Day National Day of Action, put on by grassroots groups like the…
