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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 waiting on a charter to be finalized, which will establish the first Women’s Committee within the district that covers North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. “Younger women are breaking…
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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. In June, there was only one unionized hotel in Iowa. Casino and hotel workers at Prairie Meadows in Altoona were and still are represented by the American Federation of State, County and…
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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 of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend is now the “stand-alone front-runner.” The same poll showed Warren, whose numbers…
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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 Wolf, a man who suggested immigrant children be separated from their families at the country’s southern border, to the acting head of the third-largest department of the United States government. Not…
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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 110 ratified a new contract agreement with Quaker Oats last night, narrowly avoiding a strike. What’s more, the 500 RWDSU workers from the General Mills plant in Cedar Rapids also…
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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 thing on his mind come caucus night: where to put the Joe Biden posters so voters can easily see them as they walk in. An old caucus pro himself, Schaitberger…
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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 hours to meet Andrew Yang and experience Yangapalooza this past Friday. Yangapalooza featured several hours of live entertainment from Chef Zoot, Weezer and others. More than 1,200 people showed up…
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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 Scholten is trying to win in Northwest Iowa has historically been the most conservative in the state. Residents of the 4th District repeatedly vote for Republican Congressman Steve King, sending him…
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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 Saturday afternoon to discuss issues important to unions. The Fish Fry was co-hosted by the IBEW PAC, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers PAC, the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers PAC, the…
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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-certification election this week. Polls closed Tuesday on the re-certification elections that are now required by Iowa law. “We are pleased to see that 52 AFSCME-covered bargaining units won their re-certification votes. In…
