Hedge fund Alden Global Capital, one of the country's largest newspaper owners with a reputation for intense cost cuts and layoffs, has offered to buy the local newspaper chain Lee Enterprises for about $141 million.
Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids’ largest employer, announced it has acquired Dutch Thermoplastic Components, a Netherlands-based development and fabrication of structural thermoplastic composite parts.
Eco Lips moved to have room for growth and already is filling its footprint.
Collins Aerospace has been signed an agreement with Emirates Airline to upgrade its fleet of 101 B777 and 107 A380 aircraft with the company's latest GLU-2100 multi-mode receiver.
Deere and Co. made its “last, best and final offer” to the UAW negotiating team Friday night.
Earlier this month, Deere workers at facilities in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas rejected a second tentative agreement that offered 10 percent raises this year and 5 percent raises in each of the following two years, plus bonuses.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned this past Tuesday that the “metaverse” will be addictive and rob people of yet more personal information while giving the embattled company another monopoly online.
Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday.
Nov. 1 was the deadline for UnityPoint Health workers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or request an exemption. Employees that fail to be vaccinated and don’t meet the criteria for an exemption will be placed on administrative leave.
Iowa City-based MidWestOne Financial Group said Monday it plans to acquire Iowa First Bancshares of Muscatine in a deal valued at approximately $47.6 million.
MercyOne, the health care system that operates hospitals and clinics across Iowa, is extending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate to Nov. 12. Under a new state law, employees previously denied a religious or medical exemption have the opportunity to file for a waiver.
The 56-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle around 6 a.m. Wednesday while joining strikers on a picket line outside the John Deere Parts Distribution Center in Milan, Ill.
A Polk County judge refused to impose limits on picketing outside Ankeny plant, but restrictions remain in Davenport.
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