Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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Senate OKs Laborers member, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, as Biden’s Labor Secretary
March 23, 2021The vote was 68-29 with all the “no” votes coming from Republicans.
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Biden appointees moving fast to reverse Trump’s anti-worker moves
March 23, 2021For the first time in a long time, real inspectors are on their way to high-hazard workplaces including hospitals and meat and poultry processing plants.
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Progressive lawmakers step up push to end filibuster
March 22, 2021It’s wrong, they say, that Republican senators only have to threaten a filibuster in order to kill legislation that is critical for the American people.
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With renewed union backing, House passes Dream Act
March 19, 2021The bill provides a path to citizenship for the 700,000 undocumented Americans brought to this country as children.
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Pandemic’s impact propels new push for Medicare for All
March 18, 2021Bill is re-introduced into Congress as coronavirus exposes deep holes in the U.S. healthcare system.
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Alabama Amazon worker testifies before Congress: “We’re not robots.”
March 18, 2021Amazon worker Jennifer Bates brought the details to a March 17 Senate Budget Committee hearing on the growing chasm between the rich and the rest of us.
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Columbia University forces TAs, RAs to strike, again
March 17, 2021The forced strike “is a showdown between the academic 1% of deans and administrators and the 99% of younger academic workers,” the union says.
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OSHA targets coronavirus inspections to health care, meatpacking firms
March 17, 2021As it carries out Biden’s orders it will focus on going after firms that retaliate against whistleblowers.
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