“We are gearing up to lead a nationwide movement around the issues that are important to all working families….
     “ We will lead this effort with conviction and energy—joining together with working men and women who are not in unions as well as those who are, with allies in big communities and small and with elected leaders at every level who will be champions for working families.”                                                                                       --afl-cio.org

The IFL's 15th Biennial Pre-Primary COPE Convention will be held on April 17, 2010. As a result, convention credentials must be sent out 60 days prior to convention. Please have your local union's mail receiving officer watch for these important documents.  For more information, please check our calendar events.

The union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. From March 15-26, working people will hold rallies and demonstrations at branches of the Big Six Wall Street banks—Bank of America, Chase, Citigroup, Wachovia-Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley—across the country. They will tell the banks “We Are Not Your ATMs” and “Make Wall Street Pay for Creating New Jobs.” Read More>>

Thousands of union members, community activists, religious leaders and others turned out in Washington, D.C., today to confront Big Insurance and demand insurance companies stop plotting to kill health care reform even as Congress debates bills to reform the nation’s broken health care system. Read More>>

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The Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is the state federation of labor representing over 50,000 members of 520 unions throughout Iowa. The mission of the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation.

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