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Posted at June 26, 2007 at 3:44 pm
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Posted at March 20, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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Last week, the Fair Share bill that had been watered down to only apply to state workers (those in the public sector) was suddenly pulled from the floor of the House because it appeared that House Democrats did not have enough votes to pass the bill. Now, some have speculated that dirty tactics by […]
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Categories: Dems, Political Forecast, Democrats, Republicans, Iowa politics, Iowa Legislature, Rants, Chris, Des Moines, Labor, Murphy | Comments Off
Posted at February 5, 2007 at 5:03 pm
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I missed this on Friday, but Governor Culver mentioned during his appearance on Iowa that if the Iowa legislature passed Fair Share legislation that he would sign the bill into law:
“”They are talking about amending the current law. Very few people are talking about repealing ‘Right to Work’ law,” Culver says. Iowa’s so-called “Right to […]
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Categories: Dems, Political Forecast, Democrats, Republicans, Iowa politics, Iowa Legislature, Culver, Chet, Labor, Fair Share | Comments Off
Posted at February 2, 2007 at 5:11 pm
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As I have noted before, Republican leader Chris Rants in the Iowa House has made it his and the Republican crusade to rail against Democratic efforts to reform Iowa’s labor laws, including the so-called ‘right-to-work’ law. This legislative session, the issue is going to generate a lot of contentious debate. And so far, […]
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Categories: Dems, Political Forecast, Democrats, Republicans, Iowa politics, Yepsen, David, Iowa Legislature, Labor, Fair Share | Comments Off
Posted at January 31, 2007 at 1:32 pm
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SEIU President Andy Stern was over in Eastern Iowa earlier this week. I was invited, as a blogger, to sit down and meet with him but was unable to take up the opportunity thanks to classes and other meetings. However, John Deeth was able to go to the meeting with other activists and […]
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Posted at January 25, 2007 at 5:08 pm
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Today, on his 41st birthday, Chet Culver was able to sign his first piece of legislation that represented one of the biggest campaign promises that he, as well as House and Senate Democrats, campaigned on in 2006: a minimum wage increase. Big Lug over at Bleeding Heartland has a quick report about the signing, […]
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Posted at January 25, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Last night, right around 10 PM I believe, the Iowa Senate passed minimum wage legislation, raising the wage to $6.20 on April 1st and $7.25 by January 1st, 2008. The vote was 40-8 — props to the Iowa legislature for getting this passed and getting it done before the US Congress (though, we should […]
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Posted at January 24, 2007 at 4:01 pm
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As Mark Langgin over at Bleeding Heartland notes, the Iowa House passed a straight up increase in the minimum wage for Iowa yesterday on a vote of 79-19. The Register has a story on the raise here as well.
I’ve mentioned before that I was disappointed that some House Democrats basically forced the Senate to […]
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Posted at January 18, 2007 at 1:14 pm
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But it isn’t the compromise or true political leadership I was looking from from the House Democrats:
“Statehouse Democrats are expected to move ahead today with plans to raise Iowa’s minimum wage, but they’re dumping the idea of automatically raising the wage floor annually.”
Read the rest of Todd Dorman’s piece for the story on how the […]
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Posted at January 11, 2007 at 1:07 pm
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Chris Dorsey from IowaPolitics.com has the scoop:
“Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs, and Senate President Jack Kibbie, D-Emmetsburg, will draft a resolution urging Congress not to escalate the war in Iraq and not to approve the president’s request for 21,000 additional troops.
Vilsack, a Democratic presidential candidate, said it was time for Congress to step […]
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