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News about and for the working class Share with a friend   Amie here. Harvest time is upon us, and Iowa farmers are supposed to have the third-largest harvest on record.   Yet it all amounts to a hill of beans (literally) if nobody’s buying them.   Iowa soybean farmers—and those in the wider ag…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend   Amie here. Americans are starting to sour on capitalism.   That’s according to the latest Gallup survey, which found the number of US adults who say they support capitalism—”an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods,” per Merriam-Webster—is at…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend “The pressure keeps rising.”   That’s what Jacob Scroggins told me recently. (If you don’t remember him from my earlier article on it, he’s a shift supervisor at the Merle Hay Road Starbucks in Des Moines who helped organize workers to form the fourth…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend “Allegiant needs to invest in their people and their pilots.”   So says Tyler Heavey, a captain with Allegiant Airlines for the last six years.   He told me he loves his job. But he doesn’t love the way the company has treated him…

News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024. It’s spring! Summer, maybe, with the temperatures last weekend?   In any case, spring always (because I’m a masochist I guess) makes me think of spring cleaning, renewal, and reaffirmation of what I’m doing and why.   So: I’m extending…

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…

News about and for the working class Share with a friend   Amie here. The Iowa DOGE task force wants to cut IPERS for new hires, the public employee retirement system that thousands of teachers, corrections officers, and more rely on to get them through their golden years.   This does not sit well with…