Iowa Senate Democrats -KILL- Anti-Union Republican House Bill

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Iowa Democratically-controlled Senate has stopped another extremist bill from the Republican-controlled House.


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Collective bargaining bill DOA in Iowa Senate

http://iowaindependent.com/53767/collective-bargaining-bill-doa-in-iowa-senate

By Lynda Waddington | 03.14.11 | 4:42 pm
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The chairman of the Senate Labor Committee announced Monday that a bill passed by the Iowa House to limit collective bargaining rights is dead for the remainder of the session.

Sen. Wally Horn (D-Cedar Rapids) said that there weren’t enough votes in the Democratically-controlled Senate to bring the bill out of committee. Members of the Republican-controlled Iowa House spent three days last week debating the bill, which was ultimately passed Friday on a party line vote.

The bill, House File 525, allowed employees to become “free agents,” able to negotiate their terms of employment directly with employers even in a union shop. The bill also prohibited unions from negotiating on health benefits, retirement or layoffs, and required arbitrators to consider comparisons with non-union workers and the private sector, and whether taxes would be increased.

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1. that's one won.

[Critters2]

2. Surprising. Iowa's not exactly a union-friendly state.

That's one for our side.

[rurallib]

3. Great. But remember we are but a heart attack or stroke away

from possibly losing control of the Senate.
Pray for their health, even if you are an atheist.

[Quantess]

4. Good news!

[defendandprotect]

5. kr

[Scuba]

6. Way to go Iowa!!! Now....

...back to Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Maine, etc.