Category Archives: union busting

Rescheduled Union Vote For UnityPoint Nurses In Des Moines Today

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Dave Bradley

A big load of thanks to Amie Rivers of iowastartingline.com for sending out the reminder email about the union vote taking place starting today and going through Tuesday, December 9th. The very fact that we have a situation where professionals … Continue reading →

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AFGE Solidarity Picket On Aug. 27

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Paul Deaton

Join the Solidarity Picket Line! The VA announced it ceased to recognize the union contract. This action is illegal.  The VA took this action because the union has successfully stopped attacks on federal workers, and they hope to break the … Continue reading →

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JASPER COUNTY SUPERVISORS GUT WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Dave Bradley

Was very sorry to see this:  JASPER COUNTY SUPERVISORS GUT WORKPLACE PROTECTIONS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES JASPER COUNTY, IA – In a shameful move, the Jasper County Board of Supervisors has made the decision to strip public employees of nearly all … Continue reading →

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Six Anti-Worker Laws Passed By The Iowa Legislature

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Dave Bradley

Amie Rivers over at iowastartingline.com passed on an extremely eye-opening story she wrote last Monday in her weekly news letter last Monday. As the election nears, I wanted to pass it on to our readers. I want to really thank … Continue reading →

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New Labor Report Not Kind To Iowa

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Dave Bradley

The rise and fall of the middle class in the US has almost exactly tracked with the rise and subsequent gutting of labor unions in the US. Although this chart is a few years old, the trend has not changed … Continue reading →

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Vote By Mail? What If There is No Post Office?

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Dave Bradley

Very disturbing news coming out in recent days that the venerable US Postal Service (USPS) which has been on shaky financial legs since a 2006 law passed by a Republican congress and signed into law by George W. Bush forced the … Continue reading →

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Unions Must Strengthen To Restore America’s Middle Class

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Dave Bradley

There is little that is more illustrative of what has caused the fall of America’s middle class than the graphs that show the fall in union membership alongside a graph that shows the fall in worker’s pay. It is an … Continue reading →

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Administration Trying To Gut Post Office?

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Dave Bradley

Our Dear Leader often – very often – seems to act almost irrationally or motivated by what the latest Chiron scroll on the bottom of the screen of Fox News dictates him to do. One of his recent gambits has … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS To Hear Case Designed To Gut Unions

Posted on October 1, 2017 by Dave Bradley

Grassley’s Obstruction About To Pay Huge Returns For The Wealthy Thursday morning the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus v. AFSCME  The SCOTUS has once more agreed to hear a case designed to gut public unions. In 2016 an 8 … Continue reading →

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Union Recertification Begins Next Month In Iowa

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Dave Bradley

The massive and in my mind catastrophic overhaul had a clause meant to drive a wedge between state workers in Iowa. Built out of the Republican playbook of “divide and conquer” the clause that puts the recertification of a union … Continue reading →

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