Iowa Teamsters Defeat Union-Busting Bill

https://teamster.org/2024/04/iowa-teamsters-defeat-union-busting-bill/

2024.04.24

Public Sector Teamsters’ Opposition to SF2374 Kills the Bill

Press Contact: Kara Deniz Phone: (202) 497-6610 Email: kdeniz@teamster.org

(DES MOINES, Iowa) – Intense and sustained opposition by Iowa Teamsters to SF2374, legislation that would gut public sector unions, led to the bill’s final defeat at the close of the legislative session on Saturday.

The bill, originally introduced by Senators Adrian Dickey (R-Packwood) and Jason Schultz (R-Schleswig) in February 2024, received strong public pushback from Iowa Teamsters, including the Missouri-Kansas-Nebraska Conference of Teamsters, Joint Councils 25 and 32, and Locals 90, 120, 238, 371, 554, and 710.

If signed into law, the bill would have required public employers to submit a list of their employees to the state upon the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement. If the employer chose not to provide the list, the union would have had to sue the employer in district court or be decertified.

“Working people have crushed an absolutely disgusting bill that would have hurt public employees and unfairly targeted unions,” said Alano De La Rosa, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 90 in Des Moines. “Since 2017, Iowa lawmakers have set their sights on destroying public sector unions. This attack on Iowa public sector unions is now where it belongs—in the trash.”

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