Quiz: How Much Do You Really Know About Iowa Labor History?Posted December 8th, 2022 at 7:42am by Ellie Konfrst AP Photo</p><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which union did Iowa-born worker John Lewis lead for 40 years?</h3><ul><li>United Auto Workers</li><li>National Education Association</li><li>United Mine Workers of America</li><li>International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>In which year did the first major strike in Iowa take place?</h3><p><p>Hint: It involved railroad workers in Council Bluffs, Burlington, and Ottumwa.</p></p><ul><li>1871</li><li>1877</li><li>1887</li><li>1890</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>Which Iowa town was home to the very first local of the American Railway Union?</h3><ul><li>Council Bluffs</li><li>Fort Madison</li><li>Dubuque</li><li>Carroll</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>What company decision prompted the Maytag Strike of 1938 in Newton?</h3><ul><li>Reduction in health care benefits</li><li>Layoffs</li><li>Unsafe working conditions</li><li>Pay cuts</li></ul></section><section data-block="SingleChoice"><h3>This is an audio file of an interview with Albert Jennings, formerly a president of a local firefighters’ union. Use your deduction skills: in what decade do you think he was president?</h3><p><p>Audio file courtesy of the Iowa Labor History Oral Project.</p></p><ul><li>1920s</li><li>1940s</li><li>1960s</li><li>1980s</li></ul></section><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
