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CITY OF AMES v. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT REL. BD.

No. 22-0468.

986 N.W.2d 384 (2023)

CITY OF AMES, Appellant, v. IOWA PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD, Appellee, and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 234, Intervenor-Appellee and AFSCME Iowa Council 61, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed February 24, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason M. Craig (argued) and Aaron J. Hilligas of Ahlers & Cooney, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Brenna Bird , Attorney General, and David Ranscht (argued) and Benjamin J. Flickinger (until withdrawal), Assistant Attorneys General, and Diana S. Machir (until withdrawal), Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, Des Moines, for appellee.

Jay M. Smith (argued) of Smith & McElwain Law Office, Sioux City, for intervenor-appellee International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 234.

Waterman, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all justices joined.

In this appeal, we must decide whether statutes that protect the pre-2017 collective bargaining rights of public transit employees extend to nontransit employees in the same bargaining unit. Federal funding is conditioned upon labor protections for transit workers. The Iowa legislature amended Iowa Code chapter 20 in 2017 to restrict...

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