The Iowa City Area Development Group and Iowa City Area Business Partnership will merge in an effort to have greater impact together and provide a unified voice for local businesses in the area. The coming months will focus on transition and design work.
The strike by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 100G against the Cedar Rapids facility of Ingredion — now in its 15th week — doesn’t appear to be anywhere near likely to be settled until after the Thanksgiving holiday, the local’s president said Thursday.
Though Iowa’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate rose to 2.9 percent in October, the state’s labor force participation rate stayed at 67.7 percent.
Two meat plant workers from Iowa and one from Georgia have filed a federal lawsuit accusing 11 of the United States’ largest beef and pork producers of conspiring to depress wages and benefits.
His Cedar Rapids basement is a fully equipped percussion studio with everything from simple snares through full drum kits, timpani and a full complement of xylophones and other mallet instruments.
One of the challenges Iowa long has had in luring new businesses — as well as new workers and residents — to the state from elsewhere in the nation, Debi Durham said, is that “we have not been properly introduced.”
City also looking into micro transit within Marion
The Iowa Organic Association will hold its annual meeting Dec. 1 in Marion with guest speakers Angela Tedesco, author of “Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community Supported Agriculture,” and Dr. Andy Nish, medical director of the John Stoddard Cancer Center.
Unverferth Manufacturing said Tuesday it is nearing completion of a 75,000-square-foot plant expansion at its Shell Rock facility.
Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to resolve opioids lawsuits brought on by more than a dozen state attorneys general, officials announced Tuesday.
Hills Bank and Trust’s board of directors said Monday it has named Lisa Shileny as its president and chief operating officer, effective Nov. 8 of this year.
Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with Iowa and 39 other states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users' locations, state attorneys general announced Monday.
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