Iowa lawmakers push bill to severely restrict collective bargaining for public campus employees

Noted: David Vanness, an associate professor of health population sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who vocally opposed changes to tenure policies there, said he thought Iowa’s “version of Act 10” — as Wisconsin’s blow to collective bargaining was known — is that limiting bargaining to “small” increases in wages “would drastically limit faculty union power, and together with recertification could certainly harm membership.”