Iowa labor experts speak on UnityPoint unionization efforts, worker challenges

By: Brooklyn Draisey

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: September 4, 2026

Words: 1,304

Last Updated: 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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As the United States honors the efforts of its labor movement and workers this Labor Day Weekend, Iowa labor experts say workers are “making the labor movement every day,” amidst weaker bargaining laws, attacks from corporations and other challenges everyone is facing, whether they hold a union card or not.

Jesse Case, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 238, and Jennifer Sherer, deputy director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network and director of …

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