Mark Gruenberg
LATEST ARTICLES BY Mark Gruenberg
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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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Republican Senate should get off its ass and help hurting people
December 18, 2020Almost 14 million jobless people will lose their aid checks the day after Christmas. 12 million could be evicted. And for 310,000 people there will be no aid at all, because they are dead.
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With poverty rising, Poor People’s Campaign takes case to Biden
December 18, 2020The coalition says the GOP ignores the poverty issue or blames the poor, while the Dems simply concentrate on the "middle class."
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Two corporate coverups: Amazon on coronavirus data, Uber on sexual assault
December 17, 2020California officials aren’t pulling punches when it comes to going after big corporate capitalists who harm workers, even though it’s the holiday season.
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