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  • Iowa worker rights advocates, progressive orgs excited for Kamala Harris

    July 24, 2024

    Iowa worker rights advocates and other progressive organizations were mostly hopeful, if not outright excited, about the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic nominee for president. 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…

    Iowa worker rights advocates, progressive orgs excited for Kamala Harris
  • Widow of Iowa correctional officer killed on the job speaks in support of unions

    February 26, 2024

    Sara McFarland wants to make sure her husband’s on-the-job death—during the inmate escape attempt at Anamosa State Penitentiary in 2021— wasn’t in vain. Her husband, Robert McFarland, was a correctional officer at Anamosa. He and nurse Lorena Schulte were murdered on March 21, 2021, by two inmates trying to escape from the medium-security facility.  “Robert…

    Widow of Iowa correctional officer killed on the job speaks in support of unions
  • 🧑‍🔧 Cargill Cuts Off Health Insurance to Cedar Rapids Strikers

    October 30, 2024

    Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Cargill Corn workers in Cedar Rapids told me they don’t want you to forget about their struggle against the world’s largest grain trader.   And that’s especially important this week, as Cargill cut off health insurance for its nearly 100 workers on strike.   “For…

    🧑‍🔧 Cargill Cuts Off Health Insurance to Cedar Rapids Strikers
  • Le Mars Kemps workers win strike, raises, pension

    October 2, 2025

    Another group of workers won a pension back; it’s spreading! Around 186 workers at Kemps, a dairy plant in Le Mars, have won raises, a new health care plan, and a defined benefit pension in their first-ever work stoppage at the plant. The workers, who are organized with Teamsters Local 554, were on strike for 27 hours before coming…

    Le Mars Kemps workers win strike, raises, pension
  • 🍓 Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon Collide!

    June 21, 2024

    Your weekly Iowa news roundup Share with a friend It’s Friday, June 21, 2024. The summer solstice, or longest day of the year—when the North Pole is most tilted toward the sun—was yesterday.   But if you’re looking for fun Iowa solstice events, there are a few you can still check out this weekend; read…

    🍓 Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon Collide!
  • Why Iowa women earn less than men

    March 26, 2026

    Inside: News about and for the working class Share with a friend Amie here. Today—Thursday, March 26—is Equal Pay Day, a day highlighting how much less the average American woman makes compared to the average American man. In 2025, women made 18.6% less than men, meaning they’d have to work all of 2025, plus January,…

    Why Iowa women earn less than men
  • 🪧 Cargill Strikers: ‘Don’t Forget About Us’

    October 16, 2024

    Share with a friend It’s Worker Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. At last Thursday’s rally at Cargill Corn Milling in Cedar Rapids, where around 100 Teamsters-affiliated workers have been on a Cargill strike since Oct. 1, workers talked about the disrespect they say they’ve gotten from their company during negotiations.   (Read my stories about how…

    🪧 Cargill Strikers: ‘Don’t Forget About Us’
  • Have you seen the mountain lion in Iowa?

    August 22, 2025

    Your emails and Positively Iowa Share with a friend 🗣️ It’s Friday; time for reader replies!   My take: I will not at all be surprised if Iowa Republicans try to pass this unconstitutional Oklahoma BS here when the legislative session starts back up in January. Here’s hoping I’m wrong.   Iowa news briefs: Mountain…

    Have you seen the mountain lion in Iowa?
  • Shutdown means no pay for 10K Iowa workers

    October 23, 2025

    The ongoing federal government shutdown is resulting in lots of Iowans not being paid—and it’s not just federal workers. There are more than 10,000 Iowans who are federal workers, according to the Iowa Federation of Labor. “Working people are already struggling to pay our bills, and the Trump administration is offering no relief,” the group…

    Shutdown means no pay for 10K Iowa workers
  • 🏥 Mercy Workers Say They Were Ignored in Hospital Merger

    July 10, 2024

    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…

    🏥 Mercy Workers Say They Were Ignored in Hospital Merger
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