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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…

Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here with a quick correction: I had the wrong link for Workers Memorial Day events around Iowa on April 28!  Here’s the correct one, and I’ve also changed it on our website. (Thanks to reader Caroline L. for catching that!) If break…

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. I’ve been reading several takes on what went wrong for Democrats in this election. And there’s one that actually resonates:   The party as a whole needed to do a better job centering the working class.   Before you furiously hit reply, look: I know…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend 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…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend   Amie here. Another young college graduate from Iowa can’t find any sort of entry-level job, she told me last week. And AI may be to blame.   Meghan Holloran just graduated from Drake University this May with an environmental journalism degree. She did…

Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. Unelected billionaire Elon Musk continues his unconstitutional steamrolling through the federal government under the guise of “efficiency” (with President Donald Trump’s blessing).   That includes: Cuts at nonprofits everywhere after the loss of federal grants, Thousands of Americans out of a job after USAID cut,…