Union leaders called on the state officials to provide more funding, better pay and more staffing as well as restore bargaining rights to correctional officers in the wake of the latest inmate attack at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
Roughly 100 workers at Cargill’s corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids went on strike Tuesday after being unable to reach an agreement on a new contract.
The union represents about 100 employees across a range of positions at the Cargill corn milling plant in Cedar Rapids. The bargaining unit’s contract expired at 11:59 p.m. Monday.
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As long as the strike lasts, it will deprive the company of much-needed cash it gets from delivering new planes to airlines. That will be another challenge for new Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, who six weeks ago was given the job of turning around a company that has lost more than $25 billion in the last six years and fallen behind European rival Airbus.
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The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed its strike notice against Canadian National shortly after it announced that it plans to challenge a government order that forced it into arbitration with both CN and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. railroads to end a lockout, said union spokesperson Marc-André Gauthier.
Local union members and labor leaders gathered in Cedar Rapids Monday to call on Iowa lawmakers to restore collective bargaining rights for public workers.
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The proposed bill would place more responsibility for bargaining units’ recertification with public employers; labor members and advocates call it a ‘union-busting’ bill
The GOP legislator who introduced the bill said it is needed to close a loophole in the state’s collective bargaining law, while a Democrat called it ‘union-busting’
Starbucks and the union organizing its workers sued each other Wednesday in a standoff sparked by a social media post over the Israel-Hamas war.
Cedar Rapids area development professionals said employers have to explore new strategies to keep construction moving. That includes new incentives to attract and retain workers, as well as being more open to finding legal pathways for immigrants to work.
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