Bernie's staff here says we knocked on 130,000 doors this weekend. I did about 250 of those doors, so do the math: 500 people like me. Possibly I’m just swept up in the moment, but it seems like a great social movement in the making.
Many large labor unions have yet to make formal 2020 presidential endorsements.
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Cathy Glasson is the farthest left candidate in recent memory to mount a serious campaign for Iowa governor. She is betting on a coalition of service workers, many of them immigrants and people of color; members of manufacturing unions, many of them white and some of whom supported Trump; and young members of DSA.
One of the most transparent union-busting provisions of Iowa’s new collective bargaining law has failed to significantly reduce the number of workers covered by the state’s two largest public-sector unions: the Iowa State Education Association and AFSCME Council 61.
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The new law bans public employee unions in most cases from negotiating over issues such as health insurance, evaluation procedures, staff reduction and leaves of absence for political purposes. Police officers and firefighters are exempted from that portion of the law, a move that AFSCME argues in the lawsuit violates the Iowa Constitution by creating "favored" and "disfavored" groups of government workers.
A bill proposed in the Republican controlled state legislature in Iowa will make it illegal for all public employees except “public safety employees” (police and fire) to negotiate over health care, transfers, job evaluations, procedures for workforce reductions, subcontracting, or anything related to seniority.
A grassroots organizing effort may bring out between 10,000 and 20,000 Latinos to caucus in Iowa on Monday, and Bernie Sanders may be the beneficiary.
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