New IBEW Group Looks To Empower Women In Labor
Female electricians in the Midwest are ready to fight for equality. Women within the 11th District of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are wa... Read more.
Inside IBEW’s Efforts To Help Hotel Workers Unionize In Dubuque
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Dubuque is expanding its footprint by adding some nontraditional members to its ranks — hotel workers. ... Read more.
Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges
Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent o... Read more.
Ernst, Grassley Vote To Confirm Child Separation Proponent As DHS Undersecretary
Iowa Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley voted to confirm Chad Wolf as the Department of Homeland Secretary undersecretary. It’s a move that propelled ... Read more.
Cedar Rapids Union Scores Contract Victory For Workers
It has been a busy week for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Local 110 of Cedar Rapids. Nearly 700 workers of the RWDSU Local... Read more.
Firefighters Draw On Caucus Experience To Boost Biden
Harold Schaitberger is the international president of a 320,000-person union and leads the ninth-largest federal union PAC in the United States, but he has one... Read more.
Yang’s Nontraditional Supporters Are Real And Ready To Vote
A 33-year-old from Kansas City hitched a ride from a friend in St. Louis to stand in the cold and rain for more than four... Read more.
How Scholten Works To Unseat King, One Tiny Town At A Time
Democrat J.D. Scholten is looking for supporters in the most unlikely of places — the smallest towns west of I-35. The 39-county congressional district Scholt... Read more.
Abby Finkenauer Lifts Up Labor Issues At First Fish Fry
Hundreds of people and eight 2020 Democratic presidential candidates showed up to Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer’s inaugural fish fry in Cedar Rapids ... Read more.
Most AFSCME-Covered Bargaining Units Vote To Re-Certify
Fifty-two units covered by AFSCME and 96 percent of the Iowa public employee associations voted to retain union representation during a two-week re-certificatio... Read more.