What We’re Doing In Iowa Select type Article Event Media Hit Multimedia Report Resolution Speech Statement Apply September 28, 2017 Blog Iowa Teachers Overwhelmingly Reject Attack on Working People In February, Gov. Terry Branstad (R) signed into law a bill that was a direct attack on the rights of working people. In the first major test of the new law, Iowa's teachers and faculty rejected the attacks and recertified 13 bargaining units overwhelmingly yesterday. October 28, 2016 Blog Working People in Unions Condemn Harassment and Hate Crimes Against Black Hawk County, Iowa, Supervisor Candidate Chris Schwartz This is Trump-style politics at its worst. Chris Schwartz, an openly gay man, our union brother (American Federation of Musicians Local 137) and Pride At Work member, is running for... August 6, 2015 Speech Trumka to Iowa AFL-CIO Delegates: "America needs your activism." AFL-CIO President RIchard Trumka delivers the keynote speech at the Iowa Federation of Labor Convention.