With Iowa’s Right to Work Law targeted for repeal by the union bosses, citizens and members of the state legislature are rising up to defend workers’ choice. Among them is State Sen. Pat Ward. Writing forcefully in the Des Moines…
Despite Iowa’s strong history of support for workers’ choice, Big Labor is once again pushing a new state law that would allow unions to charge fees to nonunion workers. The Des Moines Register notes that “the measure represents a major…
With a larger Democrat majority in the state legislature, supporters of Right to Work in the Hawkeye State will have their hands full defending workers’ right to choose. Despite the threat, House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen announced his strong opposition…
In the movie Poltergiest II: The Other Side, a little girl is able to see ghosts and announces to her parents, “they’re back,” before the terror begins. Something similar is happening in Iowa, as Big Labor leaders and their minions…
In addition to the quarter of a billion dollars the AFL-CIO will spend to elect pro-Big Labor puppets across the nation, the Services Employees International Union (SEIU) will spend an incredible $75 million in forced-union-dues money between now and November.
It has been nearly 30 days since the Iowa State House and Senate passed a sweeping union power grab of the state’s school boards. Despite initial indications that Democrat Gov. Chet Culver was not inclined to support the legislation, it…
The union power grab of local school boards is hitting a snag. Editorial boards, educators and now, perhaps, even the Democrat governor is saying the unions and their cronies in the legislature are going too far, too fast. The Quad-City…
David Elbert of the Des Moines Register says all the pro-Big Labor lifting Iowa Democrats have done for the union bosses is a gift to the Republican Party. First they tried to repeal the Hawkeye State Right to Work Law,…
Iowa’s most influential political observer, David Yepsen, has some advice for Iowa’s Democrat Gov. Chet Culver — veto the union power grab and get yourself reelected. By standing up to some of the labor unions, Gov. Chet Culver may have…