On July 2, 2017, the State of Iowa took away overtime eligibility for employees who, under the old Collective Bargaining Agreement, were eligibile to be compensated for their work over 40 hours in a work week. Over 160 job classifications are impacted by this below the belt move. One of the largest sectors of targeted job classifications are in patient care positions. If our nurses and other patient care professionals are being forced to work overtime (as they often are) and not being paid for it, the quality of care for our veterans and others who rely on their expert care will suffer. Our hardworking public employees deserve better, and the people who depend on quality public services deserve better, too.  We are calling on Governor Reynolds and Department of Administrative Services (DAS) Director Janet Phipps to do the right thing and restore the overtime eligibility of every single job classification that was stripped away on July 2nd.