Mazahir Salih learned about the Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa by coincidence. In 2012, she moved to Iowa with her family. They settled in Coralville and her children went to school, with the exception of her 2-year-old son. Two months after moving, Salih took her son to the Coralville Public Library to pass […]
University of Iowa Labor Center
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University of Iowa Labor Center, slated for closure in 2019, celebrates 70 years
The University of Iowa Labor Center will celebrate 70 years of empowering workers in the Hawkeye State this Saturday, May 7. Surviving the threat of closure and a pandemic, the Labor Center continues to play a vital role in tackling the challenges facing workers statewide. “The Labor Center is our state university’s commitment to the […]
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‘Gone but not forgotten’: Iowa City commemorates 68 workers who died last year in Iowa
For Workers’ Memorial Day on Thursday, union-sponsored events across Iowa sought to “put a human face and name” to the 68 Iowans who died while at work in 2021. “Every worker on this list has a story, a family and friends whose lives have been forever altered, when their loved one went to work one […]
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Top five 2018: Workers in Iowa continue to fight the good fight
The last few years have been challenging for Iowa workers, and 2018 is no exception. In the face of these challenges, Iowans are fighting back to reclaim their rights and their state.
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Iowa City’s Sudanese community navigates Trump’s travel ban rhetoric
Hanadi Elshazali will always remember what it felt like to go to work on Nov. 9, 2016 — the day after the country elected Donald Trump as its 45th president. She’ll remember the chaotic silence as she entered her office at the Pheasant Ridge Neighborhood Center of Johnson County, the muffled whispers that made her […]
