Iowa’s teacher’s union filed a lawsuit (Tuesday), challenging the new state law that restricts contracts talks for most public sector workers to a single subject: their base salary.
That’s Iowa State Education Association president Tammy Wawro. She says the law is unconstitutional because there are now TWO classes of government workers in Iowa since “public safety employees” were allowed to continue negotiating over a wide range of issues, including their insurance benefits.
The union’s lawsuit also challenges the new requirements for the voting that determines whether teachers and other public sector workers want to have union representation in the workplace.
More than 34-thousand Iowa teachers are members of the Iowa State Education Association. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new collective bargaining law in February, right after Governor Terry Branstad approved the changes.
