Alano de La Rosa, principal officer for Teamsters Local 90, called for UnityPoint Health to voluntarily recognize a nurses union during an event at the UnityPoint hospital complex in Des Moines Aug. 20, 2025. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
About 2,000 nurses in four Des Moines area UnityPoint Health campuses will vote early this month on whether to unionize their ranks for what leaders of the movement say will bring more bargaining power for salaries, benefits and working conditions through a proposed affiliation with the Teamsters Union.
Nurses are expected to vote Dec. 7 to 9 on unionization at four UnityPoint locations — Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Blank Children’s Hospital, Methodist West Hospital and Iowa Lutheran Hospital…