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Article: Unionization effort gets under way for Head Start; Operation: New View program employees look to organize
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- March 15, 2007
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In what appears to be the first organized labor campaign of a Head
Start program in Iowa, employees of Operation: New View Community
Action Agency are courting union representation.
And the low-income advocacy group appears to be preparing to fight
the unionization effort, according to Dubuque organized labor
sources.
Wayne Laufenberg, business representative for District 6 of the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, on
Wednesday confirmed that members of the Head Start staff late last
year approached the union, seeking representation.
The Head Start program - serving the educational needs of low-
income children ages 3 to 5 in Dubuque, Delaware and Jackson ...