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Union Sues the Prison System
By iowapublicradio.org- Joyce Russell
Published: 11/06/2014

The state’s largest public employees union is suing the Iowa prison system over the right to wear anti-Branstad pins at work.

AFSCME is taking its case to district court after an unfavorable ruling from the Republican-dominated Iowa Public Employment Relations Board.

AFSCME workers at the state prison in Coralville donned the protest buttons in 2011 after Gov. Branstad’s partial veto of a budget bill forced closings of unemployment offices around the state. This jeopardized jobs of state workers.

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