This week's working news you can use: Job Corps cuts hurt Iowa's employment: Despite its success, Ottumwa Job Corps—which offers free education and vocational training for at-risk youth ages 16...
Here’s a quick look at the week’s top news affecting Iowa workers and the workplace:
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...
Less than a year after the town's major Tyson plant closure, meatpacking giant JBS announced the construction of a new Perry facility employing 500 workers. On the latest episode of Cornhole Champions, the team talked about the impact the Tyson closure had on the community, what the JBS facility could do for the local economy, and the net win of potential union representation.
Check out the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzqTcfZrH4&t=1s
After the Scott County Attorney stonewalled its release, the public can finally read the state’s investigation into the deadly collapse of the Davenport Hotel. Inside: cash workers, altered...
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...
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 nearly 40 years.
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Meatpacking workers at JBS plants across the country, including two in Iowa, just ratified a first-ever national contract across all plants.
Trump's attacks on the federal workforce, apprenticeships, and higher education, plus tariffs that threaten to increase prices on everything, could erase the strong labor market for Iowa graduates.
Labor organizations across the state, including in Waterloo, held Workers Memorial Day events on April 28, remembering those who died on the job for any reason in 2024.
