Iowa: Cutting Right to Work on Democrats "To Do List"
According to the Quad City Times:
DES MOINES — Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal isn’t ready to rule out another attempt to pass “fair share,” a plan that would allow public-sector unions to negotiate for the right to charge a service fee to nonunion workers.
Gronstal, a Council Bluffs Democrat, said Friday that the issue may come up again when the Legislature reconvenes in January.
Fair share was one of the most controversial proposals of this year’s session. It passed the Senate and died in the House. Critics of the measure said it was the first step toward dismantling Iowa’s right-to-work law, while supporters said it was a matter of fairness for unions.
“I describe it as making people pay for services they get,” Gronstal said Friday, interviewed on the Iowa Public Television program “Iowa Press.”
Although fair share didn’t pass, Gronstal said the debate was useful.
“Here’s the good news: For the first time in 30 years, people talked about it,” he said.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Des Moines Democrat, said in early October that he was open to revisiting fair share. He said he would decide before the session whether the measure has enough support to pass the House and drop it if there isn’t enough support...click to continue.
