Articles Tagged: Organized labor

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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.

One day in early October 2016, I was staffing the local Republican campaign office in Cedar Rapids. On any given …

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’

Radical union organizer arrested in Marion in 1919, sent to prison

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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Make no mistake, this move by the COGS is indeed a stupid one

Union workers from across Iowa gathered at the State Capitol Monday to protest proposals loosening state child labor laws.