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Workplace law changes would make for lost, dangerous Iowa childhoods, Council Bluffs labor leaders, parents, say – Iowa Capital Dispatch
Council Bluffs — Labor leaders, dad and mom and Council Bluffs neighborhood members say proposed radical adjustments to Iowa’s child-labor legal guidelines would redefine what it means to be a child within the state, inserting younger folks in jeopardy whereas driving down wages for adults amid the tumult of a employee scarcity.
“The parents which can be for this invoice need you to suppose it’s about giving extra alternatives to 14-year-olds, that it’s about them bagging groceries or working on the Dairy Queen,” mentioned Jen Pellant, president of the Western Iowa Labor Federation. “That isn’t what this invoice is about. The invoice is about billion-dollar firms pressuring our Legislature to permit them to take advantage of our youngsters.”
The Western Iowa Labor Federation organized the Council Bluffs rally.
“Over 100 years in the past, we determined that children belonged in school rooms and never factories,” Pellant mentioned.
In the meantime, key Republican advocates like state Sen. Jason Schultz of Schleswig, an architect of the extra permissive child-labor legal guidelines, say they are going to enhance the economic system and create a brand new technology of expert staff within the state as Iowans take up early coaching.
About 30 folks — with indicators studying, for instance, “Our youngsters usually are not on the market” and “Childhood means studying, not incomes!” — protested the plans for child-labor adjustments in entrance of Wilson Center College in Council Bluffs late Saturday morning.
Former state Senate Majority Chief Mike Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat, mentioned the laws rolls again protections for teenagers, pure and easy.
“As initially drafted, it might even have mentioned that if a child is injured or killed on the job, the employer has no legal responsibility, they’re exempt from legal responsibility — so they might kill your child and also you’d need to provide you with the cash to bury them,” Gronstal mentioned.
At this level within the legislative course of, Republicans have eliminated that employer-liability provision.
Gronstal mentioned the laws is designed to skirt federal office guidelines. He sees the payments, with GOP backers within the Home and Senate, as aimed toward miserable wages for adults who ought to be incomes extra amid a labor scarcity. However there usually are not sufficient folks 18 and older to fill 1000’s of job openings, he mentioned.
“In scores of various methods, Republicans have run folks out of the state of Iowa,” Gronstal mentioned.
Mary Anne Kuhr, president of the Loess Hills chapter of the Affiliation of College Ladies, made the case that stress-free child-labor legal guidelines will harm women, and make it more difficult to attain pay fairness for girls.
“This invoice will permit younger women to work longer hours in work situations that might not be conducive to good well being, rising our bodies, mind growth and social and emotional growth,” Kuhr mentioned. “Permitting this invoice to cross might transfer us again in historical past.”
Dr. Vergarie Sanford, pastor at Mount Zion Refuge Middle in Council Bluffs, mentioned historical past will choose Iowa harshly if the laws passes.
“Why would we wish to return to a time when the labor legal guidelines don’t shield our youngsters,” she mentioned.
State Rep. Josh Turek, D-Council Bluffs, mentioned the Legislature, led by Republicans, is now engaged within the destruction of the requirements and customs which have made Iowa a robust state.
“We’d like our youngsters to be in class and never in hazardous work situations,” Turek mentioned. “I can let you know we’re going to struggle this invoice.”
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It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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