Jeff Cooling is the first candidate to announce in House 77, which includes much of Cedar Rapids from Sixteenth Avenue SW to the Linn-Johnson County line. Rep. Kirsten Running-Marquardt, D-Cedar Rapids, represents that area, but is not seeking re-election to the House.
A district court judge has ordered the state of Iowa to pay a labor union representing state workers nearly $2 million in a five-year legal dispute centered on whether the state could continue to deduct union dues from state worker paychecks after a state law change in 2017.
Cedar Rapids City Council member Ashley Vanorny was among speakers Monday at a “People’s Condition of the State” event hosted Progress Iowa and featuring representative from a number of Democratic-leaning organizations.
Continuing strike could mean possible impasse
Workers would have received $8,500 bonus plus an immediate 10 percent bump in pay.
WATERLOO – Union members from Linn and Johnson County on Friday delivered about 9,000 pounds of food, supplies and necessities to John Deere workers on strike in Waterloo.
As the strike of Deere & Co. enters its third week, one of the issues facing the company and the picketing UAW workers is safety in the workplace.
A Polk County judge refused to impose limits on picketing outside Ankeny plant, but restrictions remain in Davenport.
Striking UAW workers say a judge’s order that is limiting their picketing activities outside a Davenport plant was issued improperly.
Judge grants injunction limiting picket line activities
Deere and Co. and Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America representatives headed back to the negotiating table on Monday.
A look back at what’s been in the news in Iowa in the past week
After overwhelmingly voting down a contract Sunday night, the UAW recalled its bargaining committee, effectively ending negotiations, and set a hard strike deadline of 11:59 p.m. Wednesday.
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