Webster City, located in the heart of Iowa, will be soon be quietly rolling out electric cars, as many as 2,500 of them a week, reports The Des Moines Register. Ames-based Envision Motor Company has plans to open a new facility in Webster, creating some 300 jobs. This is welcome news for a town that [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 12, 2010
The Iowa legislature has passed a new law aimed at protecting small business workers from sudden layoffs. As of July 1st, employers in Iowa must provide 30 days notice when laying off 25 or more workers. A similar federal law already exists for employers laying off 100 or more workers but according to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 20, 2010
Are “green” jobs on the rise? Not so for Newton, Iowa, reports the Chicago Tribune. According to that publication, TPI Composites, an Arizona corp., is cutting jobs at its wind turbine plant in Newton. TPI had accepted tax incentives from the city of Newton in exchange for the creation of some 500 new jobs, had [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 24, 2010
An announcement was made Tuesday night that the human services department will be cutting 125 jobs in Iowa due to state budget cuts. The initial figure was projected to be around 500 jobs, so the announcement comes as relatively good news. A budget bill was approved 30-19 in favor of spending approximately $950 million for the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 19, 2010
Although Whirlpool’s Amana plant in Iowa is adding 60 new jobs due to a new product line, the positions are being reserved for former employees. In October of 2008 the plant laid off a total of 440 workers. In the next few weeks 90 will be recalled in order to handle the seasonal spike in [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Update: This is an update to the Iowa budget crisis we blogged about last week. Iowa Governor Chet Culver accepted a deal to slash $520 million from the budget, ordering unpaid furlough days as well as requesting that unions renegotiate contracts in lieu of layoffs. “The good news here is we’re making progress,” said the governor. The governor’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 23, 2009
Home appliance maker Electrolux is closing down two factories in Iowa by spring of 2011 and expanding an existing plant in Juarez, Mexico, to make up the difference. 800 people work at the factory in Webster City, which will close early 2011, and 50 more are employed at a smaller facility in Jefferson city, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Governor Chet Culver of Iowa has ordered a ten percent spending cut after tax revenues came in shorter than expected. To meet this cut, state agencies will have to cut 1300 jobs. 529 of these jobs are currently vacant, but the remainder will come from layoffs. Agencies have until October 28th to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Terex Corporation has announced it will move production from its plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to other Terex locations in North America, affecting 170 production workers. About 50 engineering, sales and service jobs will remain in Cedar Rapids. The firm will honor the contracts of its union workers. Non-union employees will get severance pay and outplacement assistance. The [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 10, 2009
NCM, which manufactures air-filtration components for cars and construction vehicles at its plant in Grundy Center, Iowa, is going out of business, putting its 90 remaining employees on the street. The plant previously laid off 20% of its workforce, and went to a four-day week. Founded nearly 50 years ago, NCM will most likely shut down in [...]
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