Election 2026

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Issue record

Work, wages and manufacturing

In short

Miller-Meeks's official statement backs union rights for Rock Island Arsenal workers. Bohannan's campaign backs more jobs and higher wages, investing in organized labor and job training. Bridgford's campaign backs tax credits for union apprenticeships, Buy American enforcement and no tax breaks for firms that outsource Iowa manufacturing. On the record, Bohannan was sole sponsor of two 2021 Iowa bills on wage collection and worker misclassification; neither left committee.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

On unions and collective bargaining her position is in her official newsroom. A joint statement she and Representative Eric Sorensen released on April 16, 2026, after the Army announced the cancellation of its collective bargaining agreements with the American Federation of Government Employees, says "The workers who support our armed forces should have the right to join a union and collectively bargain for fair wages and working conditions. We will continue to advocate for Rock Island Arsenal employees against this decision to end the Department of War's collective bargaining agreements." On the minimum wage this desk finds no position: minimum wage appears on none of her seven issue pages and in no headline or summary on her official press-release index from December 4, 2024 to September 3, 2026. Her official economy page addresses manufacturing through a bill directing a study of making critical-infrastructure goods in the United States.

Christina Bohannan

Her campaign's only plank on work and wages is one line in its cost-of-living list: growing Iowa's economy to increase jobs and wages while continuing to invest in organized labor and union protected man hours. Her education section adds skills training and apprenticeships and career and technical education. The priorities page carries no position on the minimum wage, prevailing wages or the right to organize, and it ties layoffs at the John Deere Bettendorf plant to tariffs and trade uncertainty.

Michael Bridgford

His campaign says a journeyman's card is as valuable as a master's degree and he would expand federal tax credits for southeast Iowa employers and labour organizations that train apprentices in earn-and-learn union programmes, enforce Buy American provisions against waivers for foreign steel and aluminium, and strip tax relief from firms that outsource Iowa manufacturing.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

    She was the only sponsor of two 2021 bills, on wage payment collection and penalties for misclassifying employees, and neither left committee.

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    Her campaign's list of what she would do to lower costs ends with growing Iowa's economy to raise jobs and wages while continuing to invest in organized labour. Two of the five bills she sponsored alone are on exactly this: House File 634, on wage payment collection issues between employers and employees, providing penalties and remedies, and House File 635, increasing penalties for employers who willfully misclassify employees for unemployment compensation purposes. Both were introduced on February 23, 2021 and referred to the Labor committee, and neither has any action recorded after that referral. Limit: Two bills she wrote alone address wage collection and employee misclassification, which runs the same way as a platform line about raising wages and investing in organized labour. The match is at the level of direction and no closer: the platform names neither subject, and it takes no position on the minimum wage, prevailing wages or the right to organize, so nothing here is a match on specifics. Neither bill left committee, so there is no vote or outcome to weigh. This card sets a state record beside a federal platform, which is the only comparison her record allows.

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Sources8 source records

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  1. Miller-Meeks and Sorensen Release Joint Statement in Strong Support of Rock Island Arsenalhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/media/press-releases/miller-meeks-and-sorensen-release-joint-statement-strong-support-rock-island

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Published Apr 16, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Issued after the Army announced the cancellation of collective bargaining agreements with the American Federation of Government Employees. It is a joint statement of hers and Representative Eric Sorensen's, written in the first person plural for the two of them, and it is the only place in the scope this desk searched where she takes a position on unions or collective bargaining.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  2. Press Releases indexhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/media/press-releases

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Her official newsroom, and the scope this desk should have searched for the first draft. The index is paginated with a Next link and no page numbers, ten items to a page, each item a headline, a date and an opening summary. This desk read it page by page from the newest item of September 3, 2026 back through the address ?page=20, whose oldest item is December 4, 2024, which covers the whole of this Congress. An index sweep reads headlines and summaries; where a term turned up, the release itself was opened and read.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  3. Issues indexhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/issues

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    The index links seven subject pages and no others: delivering results, border security, economy, health, energy, veterans and education. Cited on this desk as one part of the scope behind a position recorded as not found on her; the other parts are her official press-release index and her campaign site, because a search of the issue pages alone is not a search of what she has said.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  4. Issues: Economyhttps://millermeeks.house.gov/issues/economy

    Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    First-person account of her work on energy production and manufacturing, including the Critical Infrastructure Manufacturing Feasibility Act. Its examples run to 2024 and it names no measure from the 119th Congress.

    official office record

    For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position

  5. Prioritieshttps://bohannanforcongress.com/priorities/

    Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eight sections: lowering costs, restoring faith in government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Read directly from the live site; no archive was needed. The government section carries the sentence "I take no corporate PAC money.", which is the statement side of the money card on her.

    candidate statement

    For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position; Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

  6. Issueshttps://bridgfordforiowa.com/Issues

    Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.

    candidate statement

    For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position

  7. House File 634 (2021), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF634&ga=89

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Wage payment collection issues between employers and employees, with penalties and remedies. Sponsor line reads "By Bohannan" alone; introduced and referred to Labor on February 23, 2021, with no later action recorded.

    official legislative record

    For: Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction

  8. House File 635 (2021), bill historyhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF635&ga=89

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026

    Increases penalties for employers who willfully misclassify employees for unemployment compensation contribution purposes. Sponsor line reads "By Bohannan" alone; introduced and referred to Labor on February 23, 2021, with no later action recorded.

    official legislative record

    For: Christina Bohannan: Matches stated direction