Legislative Issues

Submitted by Andrea on June 16, 2009 - 3:13pm.

Iowa Labor Related Legislative Issues

House File 333: Prevailing Wage – payment of local prevailing wage rates to persons working on public improvements for public bodies, and providing penalties and effective and applicability dates (formerly HSB 149)

House File 530: Choice of Doctor – Choice of doctor to treat an injured employee under workers’ Comp laws and providing effective an applicability dates. (See Cmte. Bill HF 795)

House file 555: Fair Share Agreements – relating to collective bargaining and providing an effective date.

After continued support by UAW CAP and UAW membership, we failed to get the 51 votes necessary to approve the bills. Six (6) of our democratic legislators declared they are “pro” business and would not support the labor bills

Nationally:

Employee Free Choice Act - ongoing support for this Act

It does three things to level the playing field for employees and employers:

Strengthens penalties for companies that illegally coerce and intimidate employees in an effort to prevent them from forming a union;
Brings in a neutral third party to settle a contract when a company and newly certified union cannot agree on a contract after three months;
Enables employees to form unions when a majority signs authorization cards.

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