Amie Rivers

Higher food prices and missing paychecks are a recipe for a tough holiday season for hundreds of striking workers in Iowa. However, their unions and community supporters are trying to make it all a little easier on them. BCTGM strike in Cedar Rapids The roughly 100 BCTGM Local 100-G workers holding the line at Ingredion…

Paralympian gold medalist and Democrat Josh Turek hung onto his Iowa House District 20 win by just six votes after a recount requested by his Republican opponent Sarah Abdouch. According to Pottawattamie County’s official canvass last week, Turek had 3,404 votes to Abdouch’s 3,397. Abdouch then requested a recount, which was completed this week, Pottawattamie…

The good news: BCTGM unionized workers at the Ingredion milling plant in Cedar Rapids are just four or five negotiating proposals away from having a new agreement, more than 100 days after beginning their strike. The bad news: They’re likely to continue striking at least through the Thanksgiving holiday. That’s according to local union president…

Reporting vote results takes time. And as other states are still counting their ballots late in the week, it’s a reminder that Iowa gets its numbers out rather fast and efficiently compared to elsewhere in the country. But Linn County became a focus and frustration on Tuesday night as the second-largest county in Iowa was…

While poll watching is nothing new, the practice has taken on extra significance this year as conspiracy theories about voting take hold on the right. In Black Hawk County, out of 59 precincts, Republicans are sending poll watchers to more than half of them on Tuesday. Craig Lohmann, chair of the Republicans of Black Hawk…

There are state legislators who have fought hard for the working class and union workers in Iowa. And there are legislators who actively work to keep workers down—by passing legislation restricting collective bargaining rights, cutting into unemployment benefits for laid-off workers, and refusing to consider a raise in the abysmally low minimum wage. Mostly, Iowa…

Rep. Cindy Axne (D-Iowa) is calling on Iowa Workforce Development to “do better” after a new report showed Iowa employers were stealing nearly a billion dollars per year in unpaid wages from employees. A Common Good Iowa report from last week showed more than $900 million is stolen annually by Iowa employers not correctly paying…

Maybe you’ve never voted before, maybe you just reached the legal voting age, or maybe you just moved to our fair state of Iowa and want a primer on the various rules and regulations legislators have attached to voting over the years. Never fear: We’re here to help! It’s no secret voting in Iowa has…