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UnityPoint Des Moines nurses push unionization, Democratic Senate hopefuls show support
August 22, 2025 // Teamsters Local 90 in Des Moines announced they're endorsing State Senator Zach Wahls to represent Iowa in the U.S. Senate.
‘When nurses are treated fairly, patients win, too’: UnityPoint Health nurses unionizing
December 2, 2024 // Teamsters Local 90 leaders say they're working with nurses from four UnityPoint facilities, Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Methodist West Hospital, Blank Children's Hospital and Iowa Lutheran Hospital, to help them create "a stronger voice to address critical issues affecting their profession and the care they provide."
Union truckers circle Capitol to protest labor legislation
February 23, 2024 // SF 2374 “is nothing more than a technical cleanup to legislation passed in 2017,” Dickey said in his statement. “Last year, 41% of Iowa public sector workers that had union representation did not have a voice due to a loophole in the legislation passed in 2017. If the public sector employer and the union are following the law, nothing will change for them.” The legislation has cleared the Iowa Senate’s Workforce Committee, which Dickey chairs. It is eligible for debate by the full Iowa Senate. It must also be approved by the Iowa House and signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds before it would become law. Rep. Dave Deyoe, a Republican from Nevada who chairs the House’s Labor and Workforce Committee, said lawmakers have been aware of the lack of recertification elections by bargaining units for years, and that it has been a concern for Republicans who passed the 2017 law. Deyoe said it will be up to Republican House leaders whether to take up the bill if it is passed out of the Senate.
Potential UPS strike approaches as company negotiates with union
May 29, 2023 // Tensions are rising as the potential for delivery truck drivers going on strike inches closer. UPS has until Aug. 1 to make a deal with the driver's union before they walk.
Teamsters across Iowa reach three-year agreement with Aramark over working standards
February 6, 2023 // Teamster members employed by Aramark Uniform Services reached a three-year agreement with their employer over wages and health care costs, staving off a potential strike across the Midwest. The new agreement "provides for increased wages and no increase in the percentage employees will pay for health care over the duration of the agreement," according to a news release from the labor union.
With campaign workers unionizing more often, former staffers recall effort on Pete Buttigieg campaign
March 9, 2022 // Cedar Rapids-based International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 238 Secretary-Treasurer Jesse Case, who is currently helping to organize members of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the labor movement is pressuring candidates to improve the lives of their workers. Otherwise, he said, those candidates risk losing the union vote.