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Bus drivers with the largest school district in eastern Iowa are upset at what they say is a gutting of their contract just weeks before school starts in the fall. School bus drivers with the Cedar Rapids Community School District, who are covered by the Teamsters...
When "the show must go on" at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque, it's backstage workers that make it happen. Now, those workers are making sure the show goes on for themselves. Backstage technicians employed by ASM Global who work at the multipurpose facility in...
Just minutes before their contract expired, United Steelworkers officials announced to workers they had a tentative agreement in place with Bridgestone in Des Moines, avoiding a strike for the moment. "We have a TA," the USW Local 310 page posted at 11:30 p.m....
More than 400 health care workers at Planned Parenthood locations across five Upper Midwest states including Iowa are now covered by a union. Across 28 Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota, 429 workers—with 90% of...
During a stop in Cleveland on Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered remarks on an aspect of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) specifically tailored to protect union pensions. ARPA’s Special Financial Assistance program is a provision that bolsters protections for...
From Starbucks baristas in Iowa City to Grinnell college student workers, workers in Iowa—and across the US—are forming workplace unions at a pace we haven't seen in decades. Maybe it's the reality of low wages of workers versus the astronomical pay and stock packages...
I’m hiking every beautiful place I can think of around my home state, to showcase the beauty Iowa has to offer. Follow along here, or on Twitter using #AmieTakesAHike, to pass along your suggestions and see where I’m headed next. They had me at "waterfall." Union...
Was Keir Hichens surprised that his small, private Iowa college would vote overwhelmingly to unionize its undergraduate student workers, becoming the first college in the entire country to do so? Not at all, the Grinnell College junior said. That's because Hichens and...
Carly Matthew was excited in 2020 when she began working at Seed Savers Exchange, a Decorah nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of heirloom seeds. She went to The Organic Farm School in Washington State for six months to learn all about the trade. This April, when...
Iowa legislators who say they're concerned about the state's worker shortage are trying to pass a new law restricting unemployment benefits in a move both seasonal workers and union officials say would force more workers to leave the state. House File 2355 would...
On March 23, 2021, two workers were killed and one taken hostage on the job at an Eastern Iowa prison. One year later, an Iowa labor union says more legislation is needed for corrections employees and their families. Robert McFarland, a 46-year-old corrections officer...
Workers all over Iowa need to know that there are multiple bills working their way through the Iowa Legislature right now proposing to slash unemployment benefits by 10-14 weeks, force Iowans to take jobs with reduced wages outside their chosen fields and wait...
Union workers continued to rally against a bill that would overhaul Iowa's unemployment system during a Tuesday Iowa Senate subcommittee hearing over the issue. The bill in question, Senate Study Bill 3093, would decrease the duration of unemployment benefits to 16...
Proponents of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act had a message for Iowa’s two Republican US Senators during a Friday rally in downtown Sioux City to support the bill. “If Senator Grassley and Senator Ernst aren’t going to support us, we can replace them,”...
The recent murder of two employees at the Anamosa state penitentiary was caused by “grossly inadequate staffing” and years of disinvestment in the corrections system, AFSCME Council 61 President Danny Homan said on the Capitol steps on Tuesday, despite his repeated...
The Iowa State Education Association on Thursday called out Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson for making a political statement far from the realities of her district. The teachers union took to social media in response to a photo circulating of Iowa’s 1st District...
“Do we really have to do this now, during a pandemic?” That was a question repeatedly asked during a roundtable with Iowa union members Tuesday morning, following an earlier, contentious debate in the Iowa House Labor Committee which advanced a bill that cuts...
American Postal Workers Union leadership often is asked by loyal customers how they can help the U.S. Postal Service survive the numerous threats presented to it in 2020. The answer, Kimberly Karol said, is to keep using the Postal Service. "The best way to support...
A $100,000 reward is on the market today for anyone able to turn in whoever placed the noose found in late June at the Altoona Facebook Data Center construction site. In an effort to gather tips that will lead to an eventual arrest in the now FBI and the Department of...
A $100,000 reward is on the market today for anyone able to turn in whoever placed the noose found in late June at the Altoona Facebook Data Center construction site. In an effort to gather tips that will lead to an eventual arrest in the now FBI and the Department of...
A $100,000 reward is on the market today for anyone able to turn in whoever placed the noose found in late June at the Altoona Facebook Data Center construction site. In an effort to gather tips that will lead to an eventual arrest in the now FBI and the Department of...
The American Postal Workers Union has rallied for support before, but never inside their vehicles due to a pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic, however, is what prompted workers to sound the alarm in Des Moines as the United States Postal Service faces a dire financial...
The American Postal Workers Union has rallied for support before, but never inside their vehicles due to a pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic, however, is what prompted workers to sound the alarm in Des Moines as the United States Postal Service faces a dire financial...
Critical infrastructure projects, manufacturing and public safety are among the sectors of everyday life in Iowa that largely have stayed on track despite the spread of COVID-19. But disruptions due to the infectious disease are starting to be felt. Ryan Drew,...
Critical infrastructure projects, manufacturing and public safety are among the sectors of everyday life in Iowa that largely have stayed on track despite the spread of COVID-19. But disruptions due to the infectious disease are starting to be felt. Ryan Drew,...
It all started with President Donald Trump failing to keep his promise to pass a trillion dollar infrastructure plan he pitched during the 2016 campaign. Many union workers across Iowa left the Democrats to help flip the state red for Trump, in part for his pitch to...
The American Postal Workers Union Local 44 of Central Iowa has endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for president, the campaign announced today. "Senator Bernie Sanders stands for the working class people of this country," said DMI APWU Local 44 President Mike Bates. "He...
The District Court for Polk County issued a ruling that suggests the Iowa Board of Regents engaged in illegal practices when it continually delayed negotiations with the University of Northern Iowa's Faculty union in 2017. But, Judge Jeffrey Farrell ultimately decided...
Iowa Rep. Abby Finkenauer and former Vice President Joe Biden have a lot in common. Finkenauer calls Biden a scrappy kid from Pennsylvania. Biden points out that Finkenauer was the second-youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Finkenauer is...
Iowa Rep. Abby Finkenauer and former Vice President Joe Biden have a lot in common. Finkenauer calls Biden a scrappy kid from Pennsylvania. Biden points out that Finkenauer was the second-youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Finkenauer is...
