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.
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.
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.
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.