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Dozens of plant workers at Milwaukee-based Palermo's Pizza are on strike and say the company has engaged in union-busting tactics as employees tried to form a union, according to Voces De La Frontera, an immigrant rights group and low wage worker center that is working with the Palermo's employees. The workers walked off the job 10 days ago.

Four train sets have been manufactured and are being readied for service at Talgo Inc. in Milwaukee. Two will be sent to Oregon, but the other two trains could be mothballed.

Americans for the Arts, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the arts and arts education, has awarded the 2012 Arts Education Award to Milwaukee-based Arts @ Large.

Vijay Govindarajan, one of the foremost experts in business innovation in the nation, will be the keynote speaker of the next meeting in the Helen Bader Leadership Speaker Series.

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The Milwaukee Center for Independence has proposed a $3.1 million renovation to its Bay View Campus located at 3333 S. Howell Ave.

The 16 Inch Society, a group of former Chicago-natives now living in Milwaukee that regularly get together for an annual 16-inch softball game, will take the field on Sunday June 10 starting at 1 p.m. in LaFollette Park.

Americans for the Arts, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the arts and arts education, has awarded the 2012 Arts Education Award to Milwaukee-based Arts @ Large.

Carroll University in Waukesha has received more than $4 million from the estate of a man to honor his late wife, who was a Carroll alumna.

The U.S. stock market continued to recover ground today, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the Fed stands ready to act to protect the financial system and the economy in the event that financial stresses from the European crisis escalate.