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Madison, WI- UW Health nurses announced that they will file an appeal today of the recent incorrect opinion by the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) with the Dane County Circuit Court. The wrongly decided WERC opinion claimed that UW Health is not covered under the state Employment Peace Act, meaning that the administration is not legally required...

Subscribers: This will be the final WisBusiness.com News Summary of the year. Products will resume Jan. 3. Thank you for subscribing!   -- In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company President Steve Wallace discusses challenges associated with growing the Milwaukee-based chocolate business.  The company’s products are processed and...

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is alerting Wisconsin businesses of recent incidents of criminal actors using business email compromise (BEC) to steal shipments of food products and ingredients valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. A recent Cybersecurity Advisory issued jointly by the Federal Bureau of...

Dr. Kristen Abbott-Anderson will become the new dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire on Jan. 3, 2023. Abbott-Anderson is director of the Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society and a professor in the College of Allied Health and Nursing at Minnesota State University,...

(Kohler, Wis.) December 21, 2022 – The Blind Horse Winery releases the wine industry’s first NFT-labeled wine in collaboration with VaporFi, a leading-edge crypto company. The collector’s edition 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon ($100) will be released on December 21, 2022, in timing with the one-year anniversary of VaporFi. The NFT label is from The Bored Ape Yacht Club, a...

The Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service is excited to announce that Dr. Maysee Herr has joined the Board of Advisors. Dr. Maysee Herr is Chief Executive Officer of HWCC (Hmong Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce), a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides technical and financial assistance to entrepreneurs and business startups in...

SHEBOYGAN, WI — The Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC) aims to provide a wide variety of services, resources, and expertise to help encourage entrepreneurial opportunities in Sheboygan County. This week saw the launch of the Sheboygan County Accelerator for Learning Entrepreneurship (SCALE), a new accelerator program in partnership with Lakeland University and sponsored by the Wisconsin...

MADISON – The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates of unemployment and employment statistics for Wisconsin metropolitan areas, major cities and counties in Wisconsin for November 2022. In brief, the nonseasonally adjusted data for Wisconsin shows: Metropolitan Statistical Areas: Preliminary November 2022...

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, one of the largest dairy co-ops in the country, once again applauds U.S. trade officials in their request to seek a new round of consultations challenging the Canadian government over their inconsistent allocation of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for dairy products under the USMCA. U.S. Trade Representative...

MADISON – One-hundred fifty years ago, Charles Darwin speculated that life likely originated in a warm little pond. There, Darwin supposed, chemical reactions and the odd lightning strike might have led to chains of amino acids that, over time, became more and more complex until the beginnings of life emerged. Ever since, researchers have...