Fair Share and Alien Workforce
By Jay Culter, Charles City

This is Jay Cutler. Charles City, IA. I am a retired high school teacher.

I was a member of the negotiating team of Charles City Education Association that negotiated the first Collective Agreement between CCEA and Charles City Board of Education.

I support the Fair Share legislation and over the years have grown to believe that Iowa really needs a closed union shop.  I doubt if we get that,  however I heard a management person not long ago say that he would rather work with than without a contract.  The contract keeps both parties more honest.
 
Would there be a possibility to support some kind of help to the service and farm workers from outside the country to work in Iowa and at the same time improve the labor laws so that collective bargaining would be less difficult.  The strategy would be make getting workers easier and improve the collective bargaining.
 
If farmers want confinement animal workers then negotiate with labor.
 
If construction contractors want labor then negotiate with labor.