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People First Iowa Community Forum With Gubernatorial Candidate December 14 in Carroll
Iowa CCI Action Fund to Hold “People First Iowa” Community Forum with Candidate for Governor, Senator Jack Hatch, Saturday, 6:30pm, Carroll Chamber of Commerce, Carroll Local-area CCI Action Fund members will take Senator Hatch on a factory farm tour through Carroll and Sac counties prior to public community forum Saturday Carroll, Iowa — Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund (Iowa CCI Action Fund) members from CCI Action Fund’s seven-county Carroll Regional Chapter will hold a “People First Iowa” Community Forum with Democratic candidate for Governor, Senator Jack Hatch, on Saturday, December 14, at 6:30pm in the Harold Bierl Community Room of the Carroll Chamber of Commerce, 407 West 5th Street in Carroll, Iowa. Iowa CCI Action Fund members will take Senator Hatch on a closed factory farm tour in Carroll and Sac counties prior to the public 6:30pm community forum in Carroll Saturday. Iowa CCI Action Fund members have a longstanding Carroll...
read moreBill could fund more wage theft investigators in Iowa
After the second legislative funnel, there are some good bills that die and some that stay alive, keeping our legislative priorities at the forefront. One such bill is Senate File 430, which is an appropriations bill that would give funding to hire two more full-time wage claim investigators in Iowa. CCI Action Fund members are excited about SF 430 because one of our biggest legislative priorities has been cracking down on wage theft in Iowa. We pushed for anti wage theft bills House File 38 and Senate File 191, which unfortunately did not survive the funnel. But we had also pushed hard for more resources to hire more wage investigators in Iowa, and a section of SF 430 does just that. A section of SF 430 would allocate enough funds for Iowa Workforce Development to hire two more full-time wage claim investigators. This would mean a lot in matters of wage and labor law enforcement, because right now, Iowa only has one wage claim investigator. With additional staff at Iowa Workforce...
read moreAnti wage theft bill SF 191 passes subcommittee, must survive funnel
We need stronger legislation that protects our workers from being ripped off by unscrupulous employers. Senator William Dotzler recently introduced Senate File 191 (companion to HF 38), a bill essential to stopping wage theft in our state.
Senate File 191 is essential to stopping wage theft in Iowa, and that is why CCI Action Fund members are working through the legislative session to make sure this bill gets far at the Statehouse this year.
Anti wage theft bill HF 38 introduced in the House
Iowa CCI Action Fund members have been busy getting the word out to legislators on the depth of the wage theft problem in Iowa. We need stronger legislation that protects our workers from being ripped off by unscrupulous employers. Representative Bruce Hunter introduced House File 38, a bill essential to stopping wage theft in our state. Last summer, the University of Iowa’s Labor Center and the Iowa Policy Project released an alarming report about wage theft in Iowa. At our Kick off at the Capitol last January 15, a group of CCI Action Fund members shared some of the key findings of the report with Representative Greg Forristall (R-Macedonia), chair of the House Labor Committee. Here are some of the facts: Every year… Iowa workers lose $600 million to wage theft across our state The state of Iowa loses around $68 million in unpaid revenue, unemployment taxes Industries most affected are construction, cleaning, restaurant workers Wage theft, in its many forms,...
read moreIncreased penalties for wage theft, increase funding for Workforce Development
When unscrupulous employers take advantage of vulnerable workers and don’t pay minimum wage, overtime, and sometimes not even at all it has far reaching effects. Wage theft costs thousands of low-wage Iowa workers $600 million a year and keeps $60 million in annual tax revenue out of state coffers. Combating wage theft makes sense for Iowa’s workers, businesses, our local economies and our state budget.
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