When lawmakers in Des Moines are seriously discussing rolling back laws against child labor, it can be hard to believe there’s anything positive about the state of labor in Iowa. But despite years of Republicans raging against unions, union membership in Iowa slightly increased last year. In 2021, 6.5 percent of the state’s workers were … Continue reading How a 1911 strike by buttonmakers in Muscatine put Iowa at the center of the fight for workers’ rights in America