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Amy Klobuchar Knows Labor, Courts Union Members In 2020 Bid
A union family helped propel Minnesota senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar from the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, Minnesota, to Yale University and Chicago Law School. Union members helped make her the Hennepin County Attorney and a United States senator. Now running for president, Klobuchar has made labor issues a central part of…
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Iowa Labor Union Workers Weigh In On 2020 Primary
Dave Stephen, a carpenter from Cedar Rapids, enjoyed his day off on Monday by attending the Hawkeye Area Labor Council’s Labor Day Picnic at Hawkeye Downs, where five presidential candidates mingled with the crowd. His wife, Margie Stephen, has already retired. She’s a long-time union member and former machinist. Dave hasn’t retired yet, he said…
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O’Rourke’s Labor, Trade Policies Envision Strong Future For Unions
Workers will be able to join a union if the want to under 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke’s six-point labor plan that he recently released while in Iowa. According to O’Rourke’s 21st Century Labor Contract that he will enact between workers, employers and the federal government, all workers: Will be able to join a…
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Steve King Makes Pork Joke When Talking Muslim Concentration Camps
Iowa Congressman Steve King attempted a joke while talking about Muslim concentration camps in China during a town hall meeting Tuesday morning. “The Uighurs in China, a million of them, they’re being put into camps and they’re taking their children away and raising them, and then they’re sterilizing the women so there’s no more Uighurs…
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How Joni Ernst Defends Her Health Care Record
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst gets non-stop questions about her stance on health care issues when she’s out at her town hall meetings. She often says she supports preexisting condition coverage despite voting five times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, a few of which had options to open loopholes back up for insurers to drop…
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Trump Knows He “Really Messed Up With The Farmers,” Say Branstad/Ernst
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said President Donald Trump understands he “really messed up with the farmers” when he approved 31 waivers allowing refiners to forgo ethanol blending requirements outlined in the Renewable Fuel Standards. However, Ernst said the President, after several conversations with top staff and herself, didn’t agree to change that decision. Ernst told…
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Ernst Plans Visit With Trump On SREs, Hopes For USMCA Resolution
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said she and Senator Chuck Grassley were able to slip messages about the Environmental Protection Agency’s proliferation of the Small Refinery Exemptions to Ambassador to China Terry Branstad before he met with President Donald Trump on Monday. Ernst said at a town hall meeting in Rockwell City Thursday morning that Branstad…
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Key 2020 Quotes And Messages From Major IFL Labor Convention
More than 200 union members showed up to the Iowa Federation of Labor Conference in Des Moines Wednesday to hear from over half the crowded Democratic presidential field. Before any of the candidates took the stage, union leaders welcomed the crowd to the conference and warned the Republican Party is trying to strip unions of…
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Gillibrand Plans School-Based Health Centers For Rural Children
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand rolled out a new plan today to create School-Based Health Centers that will provide children in rural Iowa and across the nation with mental health care services that are currently lacking. A few Iowa schools have already tried to launch similar programs, but they aren’t fully funded and they don’t necessarily meet…
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All Health Care Needs, Union President Says
Union workers who have spent decades bargaining for their health care plans might see all that negotiating go out the window under several Democratic proposals being discussed in the presidential race. Several candidates are backing versions of Medicare for All that would eliminate most private health care options. Members of the Iowa State Building and…
