— This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Ross Larson, a software engineer with Madison-based Paradigm and board member for Forward Festival. — SEIU Wisconsin is calling for the start of contract negotiations after the National Labor Relations Board certified a union election for hundreds of nurses at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison. Zach Zahalka, a nurse in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab, said forming a union represents an extension of his profession’s patient advocacy role. — U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil’s Stop Insider Trading Act has passed the House over the objections of Democrats who argued the bill fails to stop congressional stock trading. “It’s basically the opposite of a real stock trading ban from members of Congress.”