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Industry leader and president of the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council, Dan Bukiewicz, discusses Milwaukee’s workforce and the city’s building boom with Chris Mambu Rasch, executive director at Building Advantage. Chris and Dan dig into a number of topics affecting the union construction industry and discuss Milwaukee’s future.

Non-union contractors are lining up in opposition to proposed changes to federal prevailing-wage laws that they argue will make public projects more expensive at a time when the U.S. is looking to rebuild much of its infrastructure.

The free growing space, called the Rooted Community Garden, could be part of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oak Creek.

From vaccinations to mental health, COVID-19 has greatly changed how the construction industry thinks about safety.

The board of directors for Building Advantage announced the appointment of Chris Mambu Rasch as the organization’s new executive director.

Chris Mambu Rasch gained a first-hand appreciation of how the labor movement benefits workers by advocating for a large government-employees union in Chicago and a nurses union in Wisconsin.

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Representatives of the Milwaukee Building & Construction Trades Council presented a check Tuesday morning to the nonprofit group Meta House to cover its heating costs for January. Dan Bukiewicz, president of the trades council, handed the check over to Valerie Vidal, president and chief executive of Meta House and Cindy Butler, welcoming specialist at Meta ...

Trade workers are known for building homes and erecting communities. But on Tuesday, Dec. 21, they were helping to finance one.

Advocates for a proposed bill have said the state's tuition tax deduction excludes apprentices. That's not the way it works.