Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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D.C. faces potential Trumpist riots during electoral vote count
January 6, 2021D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser activated 340 members of the city’s National Guard to help police patrol the streets and keep the peace on Jan. 6.
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Dirty Dozen Senate sedition caucus stalling certification of 2020 election
January 6, 2021Meanwhile, Trump extremists descend on Capitol demanding that the election be overturned as the president pressures Pence to use non-existent powers to flip election results.
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Chicago coronavirus conflict: Parents vs. the school board
January 5, 2021The battle in Chicago reflects the national struggle over how to reopen the nation’s schools safely.
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Google workers organize innovative new type of union with CWA
January 5, 2021Using innovations to attract their colleagues—everyone from software engineers to outside “contractors”—Google workers are organizing the high-tech behemoth.
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Candidates wrap up campaigns today in Georgia U.S. Senate runoffs
January 4, 2021Huge get-out-the-vote effort tomorrow in a crucial election that will determine who controls the U.S. Senate and the chances for the enactment of Joe Biden’s pro-worker agenda.
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Unions: The $900 billion stimulus only a step to rescuing workers
January 4, 2021Labor leaders say workers have been physically and financially smashed by the pandemic and that the stimulus helps but much more needs to be done.
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VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care
December 23, 2020Staff shortages are not new, but now they’re really bad.
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Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book
December 18, 2020This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.
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