In recommending changes to the city's Residents Preference Program, Milwaukee officials are considering doing away with a limit that now causes certification for local hiring goals to expire after five years.

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Construction of Wisconsin’s first IKEA store should begin around this time next year, and is expected to finish by summer the following year.

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Two days after news broke that M.A. Mortenson Co. would serve as construction manager for the new Milwaukee Bucks arena, local officials were boasting that the project and related developments would bring at least half a billion dollars of investment to a prime piece of real estate near the city's downtown.

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Contractors and workers performing work on the Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons participated in a Safety Day at the site location Thursday.

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Wisconsin Republican’s right-to-work bill would strike parts of state law aimed at promoting harmonious relations between labor and management interests.

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Right-to-work laws have been characterized as clubs that business executives can use on workers, but 300 private contractors have joined a coalition in Wisconsin arguing that such perceptions do not apply to the trades.

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Gov. Scott Walker's contention that a right-to-work proposal would be a “huge distraction” from his efforts to create jobs has not prevented business groups from tabbing the legislation as a priority.

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Two years after he was named a business representative for one local trade union, Dan Bukiewicz was elected to represent all 18 of them as president of the Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council.

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The Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, has elected Dan Bukiewicz as its new president.

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