Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Janice Weiner (D-Iowa City) has issued the following statement regarding the announced layoffs at Whirlpool in Amana amid ongoing issues with unemployment in the State of Iowa.
“Today, 650 working Iowans face a complex and unfriendly unemployment landscape following a surprise round of layoffs in Amana,” Sen. Janice Weiner (D-Iowa City) said. “Iowans’ livelihoods are being threatened, and the changes the governor and Republican legislators made to our unemployment system hang Iowa workers out to dry.”
“Alarm bells should be sounding in our communities,” Sen. Weiner said. “The Bureau of Economic Analysis showed in a release last week that Iowa is one of just two states where real GDP has contracted. Our agriculture economy is worsening, on-again-off-again tariffs are exacerbating existing issues, and Iowans hardly go a week without seeing another round of layoffs.”
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