Before Iowa public employees won collective bargaining in 1974 they were represented by the Iowa State Employees Association. In 1976 AFSCME organized Iowa state employees into Council 61 and signed its first contract in 1977. Disagreements over union policies, bargaining positions, and personality clashes led Dan Kelley, former ISEA and Iowa AFSCME president, and a group of state social workers to break with AFSCME in 1982. This group, called Iowa United Professionals, was based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Waterloo. IUP filed a petition in December 1982 to decertify AFSCME as the bargaining agent for their unit of social workers and won the decertification election in January 1983.
From the description of Iowa United Professionals records, 1980-1983. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 46371647
