AFSCME in Iowa isn’t giving up the fight against relentless attacks on public service workers and the services they provide to Iowa’s communities.
AFSCME Council 61 is appealing a state district judge’s decision to dismiss the union’s case against a law that decimated collective-bargaining rights for most of Iowa’s public employees.
In a November 14 press release announcing the filing of the appeal, Council 61 President Danny Homan said, “From day one, we have recognized the likelihood that this case would end up in the Iowa Supreme Court.”
State lawmakers “thought they could silence us by gutting the collective bargaining law, but they underestimated the power of working Iowans determined to reclaim their rights,” Homan said.